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Pork Cutlets

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 20 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Pork Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Trim the pork chops neatly and broil them on a grill until cooked.

  2. Alternatively, fry the chops in salad oil and serve with Sauce Robert or gherkin sauce.

  3. For marinated cutlets, soak them for 4 hours in oil with sliced onion, parsley, bay leaf, pepper, and coarse sea salt, then fry in the marinade and serve with tomato sauce.

  4. To prepare with butter, melt a small piece in a frying pan, add bay leaves, lemon slices, shredded parsley and thyme, sage, mace, allspice, and white wine.

  5. Add the cutlets, cover, and cook until two-thirds done, then remove, dry, dip in egg, coat with bread crumbs, and fry quickly.

  6. Serve with the sauce from the cutlets, thickened with flour and butter, and stir in a little mustard just before serving.

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. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Parsley + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  3. Lemon + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,973 recipes

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

  4. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, sauce, parsley, pepper, butter, lemon, thyme):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, sauce, parsley, pepper, butter, lemon, thyme. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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