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Roast Chine of Pork

Roast chine of pork served with piquante sauce and apple sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and apple are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,581 recipes. Both carry 4-heptenal, which smells creamy, biscuit. The science ↓

Roast Chine of Pork

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a hot oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Roast

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Cook the chine of pork for 20 minutes per pound.

  3. Baste the pork well during cooking.

Serve

  1. Serve with piquante sauce and 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. Pork + appletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,581 recipes

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

  2. Pork + saucetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,666 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Sauce + appletop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together965 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Chine of pork
Its fat and connective tissue keep the meat moist and tender during roasting.

The step that matters

Baste the pork well during cooking. Spooning the pan juices over the surface keeps it from drying out and helps it brown evenly as the fat renders and the sugars caramelise.

Swap the apple

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, 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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