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Pork Cutlets

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and ketchup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,099 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Pork Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the back of pork into chops and trim them.

  2. Season the chops with pepper and coarse sea salt.

  3. Broil the chops gently until they are cooked and light brown.

  4. For another method, coat the chops in fresh batter mixed with chopped shallots, pepper, salt, and lemon juice.

  5. When nearly done, coat the chops in breadcrumbs and broil until light brown.

  6. Serve with a sauce made from culís, mushrooms, ketchup, lemon pickle, and mustard, reduced to a glaze.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Sauce + ketchuptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,099 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Shallot + mustardtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together859 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Shallot + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,982 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Shallot + lemontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,523 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, pepper, shallot, sauce, mushroom, ketchup, mustard):

  1. Avocadofits about as well
  2. Limefits about as well
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Red currantfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, pepper, shallot, sauce, mushroom, ketchup, mustard. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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