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Great British Pork: From Head to Toe

This is a celebration of pork, taking in some of the lesser-known cuts. It’s a labour of love, but most of the cooking is done the day before.

By bbcfood · From Open Recipes · 78 ingredients
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Why it works: Cider and red wine share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 18 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 8-10

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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By bbcfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cider + red winetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together18 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. White wine + red winetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together96 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. White wine + cidertop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together117 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  4. Pear + red winetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together64 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  5. Pear + cidertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together44 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the coriander

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pear, olive, white wine, vinegar, shallot, sugar, pork):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  3. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  4. Corianderthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pear, olive, white wine, vinegar, shallot, sugar, pork. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).