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To Broil or Fry Pork Cutlets

Pork cutlets seasoned with pepper, cayenne, and sage, then broiled or fried and served with gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and sage 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 ↓

To Broil or Fry Pork Cutlets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut pork loin into half‑inch thick cutlets.

  2. Trim cutlets into neat shapes and remove excess fat if desired.

  3. Dredge cutlets with pepper or cayenne.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil cutlets over moderate heat for 15 to 18 minutes.

  2. Sprinkle fine salt on cutlets just before serving.

  3. For frying, flour cutlets and season with salt and pepper.

  4. Serve with gravy made in the pan or sauce Robert.

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. Pepper + sagetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,388 recipes

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

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

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

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

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

  4. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  5. Bread + sagetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,778 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Pork loin
Forms the main body of the dish and provides its meaty texture when cooked through.
Egg
Binds the coating so bread crumbs adhere to the cutlets.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned crust during cooking.
Minced sage
Adds aromatic herbal flavour to the pork.

The step that matters

Broil cutlets over moderate heat for 15 to 18 minutes. Pork loin is lean and dries out quickly under heat. Cooking it through without overcooking keeps it juicy, so watch the cutlets closely rather than relying only on the time.

Swap the sage

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

  1. Parsleyfits about as well
  2. Marjoramfits about as well
  3. Sagethe original
  4. Nutmegfits about as well

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