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Griskin of Pork

A pork loin roast simmered in water, seasoned with sage, breadcrumbs, salt, and pepper, served with apple sauce and gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Sage and pepper 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 ↓

Griskin of Pork

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pork

  1. Place the griskin of pork in a stewpan and cover with cold water.

  2. Bring the water to a boil, then remove the meat and discard the skin.

Cook and season

  1. Return the meat to the pan and cook over a clear fire.

  2. Before the meat is done, sprinkle with sage, bread crumbs, salt, and pepper.

  3. Baste the meat liberally before adding the seasoning, but not afterwards.

Serve

  1. Serve with apple sauce and gravy.

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. Sage + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

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

  2. Sage + appletop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together755 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Pork + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,371 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  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

Griskin of pork
Is the main cut of meat, cooked until done and served as the centrepiece.
Powdered sage
Adds aromatic flavour to the meat's seasoned crust.
Bread crumbs
Sprinkled on the meat to form a seasoned coating on the surface.

The step that matters

Basting before seasoning. Basting only before the seasoning is added keeps the crumb coating from being soaked and washed off. Moisture from basting helps the surface stay juicy while the dry seasoning is applied afterwards.

Swap the apple

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

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Avocadofits about as well
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, sage, bread, pepper, sauce. 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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