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To Fry Pork Chops

A simple fried pork chop recipe using butter, pepper, salt, and powdered sage.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and sage match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,388 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

To Fry Pork Chops

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim the fat from the pork chops neatly.

  2. Heat a little butter in a frying pan.

Cook and serve

  1. Fry the chops, turning frequently, until browned and cooked through, about 15 minutes.

  2. Before serving, sprinkle with pepper, salt, and powdered sage.

  3. Serve without gravy, with sauce Robert or apple 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.

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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 + sagetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

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

  2. Pork + sagetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,527 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Pork + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,121 recipes

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

  5. Butter + sagetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,312 recipes

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

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 meat, which browns in the pan and turns tender when cooked through.
Butter
Conducts heat in the pan and adds fat for browning the chop surfaces.

The step that matters

Frying the chops until cooked through. Turning them frequently helps the surfaces brown evenly without burning. Pork must reach a fully cooked interior, so judging doneness by browning alone can leave the centre underdone or the meat dry if overcooked.

Swap the sage

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

  1. Sagethe original
  2. Thymefits about as well
  3. Parsleyfits about as well
  4. Marjoramfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, butter, pepper. 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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