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Pork in Apple, Curry, or Digestive Sauce

Pork cooked in apple, curry, or digestive sauce with optional egg yolk and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and mustard are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,445 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Pork in Apple, Curry, or Digestive Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Season the cold pork with sage, thyme, and parsley if it contains no stuffing.

  2. Heat the pork through in the chosen sauce.

  3. If desired, beat in the yolk of a raw egg for richness.

  4. Add made mustard and hot chutney to the sauce.

  5. If liked, mince and add cooked pig's liver to the sauce.

  6. For a richer sauce, consider using white onion or celery sauce, adding egg yolks if serving a la blanquette.

  7. Serve hot with potato chips or tomato chips around the dish.

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 + mustardtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,445 recipes

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

  2. Pork + appletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,581 recipes

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

  3. Apple + mustardtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together853 recipes

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

  4. Mustard + potato chiptop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Egg + mustardtop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,210 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Egg yolk
Adds richness and body to the sauce as it sets gently with heat.
Apple sauce
Provides moisture and a mild fruity sweetness that keeps the pork tender.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, egg, mustard, potato chip):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, egg, mustard, potato chip. 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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