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Loin of Pork

Roasted pork loin served with potatoes, green vegetables, and apple or tomato sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and tomato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,798 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Loin of Pork

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pork

  1. Score the skin of the pork loin.

  2. Brush the skin with a mixture of oiled butter and salad oil.

Roast and serve

  1. Roast or bake the pork until cooked through.

  2. Serve with potatoes, green vegetables, and your choice of apple or tomato sauce.

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.

Explore the science

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. Potato + tomatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,798 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Pork + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Pork + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Butter + potatotop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  5. Pork + appletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,581 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

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

What each ingredient does

Loin of pork
Is the main cut that is roasted, providing the meat of the dish.
Oiled butter
Adds fat and flavour to the skin and helps it brown.
Salad oil
Adds fat to the brushing mixture, helping the skin brown evenly.
Potatoes
Serve as a starchy side that accompanies the roasted meat.
Apple sauce
Adds sweetness and acidity that contrasts with the rich pork.

The step that matters

Roast or bake the pork until cooked through. Pork must reach a safe internal temperature, but overcooking dries the lean meat. Checking doneness with a thermometer helps you hit the point where it is safe yet still juicy.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, butter, potato, sauce, tomato):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Mangofits better
  3. Coconutfits about as well
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, butter, potato, sauce, tomato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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