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Grilled Chop

A pork chop grilled and served with butter and fried potatoes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Grilled Chop

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim excess fat from the pork chop and wipe it with a clean cloth.

  2. Prepare a clear fire and heat the grill.

Grill

  1. Place the chop on the grill near the fire for 2 minutes.

  2. Move the chop further from the fire and cook for 3-4 minutes.

  3. Turn the chop and cook for an additional 4 minutes.

Serve

  1. Transfer the chop to a hot dish and top with Maltre d'Hotel butter.

  2. Serve with fried potatoes.

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. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

  4. Pork + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,933 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  5. Butter + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

What each ingredient does

Pork chop
Provides the main protein, which firms and browns as it cooks over the fire.
Fresh butter
Adds richness and moisture, melting over the hot chop to carry the parsley and lemon flavour.

The step that matters

Moving the chop away from the fire. After the initial 2 minutes of direct heat, moving the chop to cooler grill space lets the centre cook through without the outside burning. Rushing this stage leaves the surface charred and the inside underdone.

“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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