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Grilled Chops

Grilled chops seasoned with butter, pepper, coarse sea salt, served with lemon slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Grilled Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Grill

  1. Heat your grill or gridiron.

  2. Grease the bars.

  3. Place the chops over clear coals.

  4. Turn them frequently until cooked through.

Finish and serve

  1. Transfer to a dish, butter them well, and season with pepper and coarse sea salt.

  2. Serve with slices of lemon.

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

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

  2. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Pork chops
Provide the main protein, which cooks through over direct heat and stays juicy when not overcooked.
Butter
Adds moisture and richness to the cooked chops.

The step that matters

Turn them frequently until cooked through. Frequent turning over clear coals spreads the heat evenly, so the outside does not char before the centre is fully cooked. Pork needs to reach a safe internal temperature, so checking doneness is important.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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