Why it works: Pork and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 23% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,666 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Pickled Pork
Ingredients
Directions
Wash the pork thoroughly.
Boil the pork until tender.
Serve with boiled greens and optionally a sauce for roasted fowls or veal.
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.
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Pork + saucetop 23% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together4,666 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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