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Pork Cutlets Another Wav

Breaded pork cutlets served with a mushroom ketchup, lemon pickle, and mustard glaze.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and ketchup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,099 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Pork Cutlets Another Wav

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the cutlets

  1. Trim the pork chops neatly.

  2. In a skillet, melt the butter and add the chopped shallots, salt, pepper, and lemon juice.

  3. Add the pork chops and cook until nearly done.

Bread and broil

  1. Coat the chops with breadcrumbs and broil until lightly browned.

Make the sauce and serve

  1. For the sauce, combine mushroom ketchup, lemon pickle, and mustard in a saucepan and reduce to a glaze.

  2. Serve the pork cutlets with the sauce underneath.

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. Sauce + ketchuptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,099 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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

  3. Shallot + mushroomtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,982 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Shallot + lemontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,523 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Butter + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,525 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

What each ingredient does

Pork chops
Provide the meat that is cooked and served as the main dish.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, golden coating that browns under the broiler.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the shallots soften and brown gently in the pan.
Mushroom ketchup
Adds deep savoury, umami flavour to the sauce as it reduces.
Lemon pickle
Adds sharp, acidic and sweet notes that balance the richness of the sauce.

The step that matters

Reduce the sauce to a glaze. Reducing concentrates the flavours and evaporates water, so the sauce thickens and clings to the cutlets. Stopping too early leaves it thin and watery; cooking too long makes it overly sticky and salty.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, butter, shallot, pepper, sauce, mushroom, ketchup):

  1. Lemonthe original
  2. Avocadofits about as well
  3. Limefits about as well
  4. Red currantfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, butter, shallot, pepper, sauce, mushroom, ketchup. 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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