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Chops, with Apples and Raisins

Pork loin chops seasoned with pepper, ginger, cayenne, and curry, fried and served with apple sauce and raisins.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Ginger and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,038 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Chops, with Apples and Raisins

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the chops

  1. Trim excess fat from the chops.

  2. Sprinkle the chops with black pepper, ground ginger, cayenne, and curry powder.

  3. Lightly flour the chops before frying.

Fry and make the sides

  1. Rub a frying pan with garlic.

  2. Melt pork dripping in the pan.

  3. Fry the chops until browned and cooked through.

  4. Prepare a tureen of apple sauce.

  5. Mix in the sultana raisins, stewed in a little gravy.

  6. Add a pinch of curry powder to the raisin mixture.

Serve

  1. Serve the chops on a bed of spinach with the apple sauce on the side.

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. Ginger + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,038 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Ginger + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,402 recipes

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

  4. Clove + appletop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,774 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Pepper + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Pork loin chops
Provide the main meat, which browns in the fat and cooks through in the pan.
Pork dripping
Carries heat evenly and adds richness and browning to the chops' surface.
Sultana raisins
Add concentrated sweetness and soft texture to the savoury gravy-stewed mixture.
Apple sauce
Adds fruity sweetness and moisture that balances the spiced, savoury pork.

The step that matters

Frying the floured chops. Flour browns quickly, so heat that is too high can scorch the coating before the pork cooks through. Medium heat gives even browning and a cooked centre.

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, ginger, clove, garlic, pork, apple, sauce):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Mangofits better
  3. Plumfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, ginger, clove, garlic, pork, apple, 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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