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To Broil or Fry Pork Cutlets

Pork cutlets seasoned with pepper, cayenne, and fine salt, optionally breaded with egg and sage, then broiled or fried.

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 the pork into ½ inch thick cutlets and trim them neatly.

  2. Remove some or all of the fat if desired.

  3. Sprinkle pepper or cayenne on the cutlets.

  4. Optionally, dip the cutlets in egg, then coat with bread crumbs mixed with minced sage before cooking.

Cook and serve

  1. Broil the cutlets over a moderate fire for 15 to 18 minutes.

  2. Sprinkle fine salt on the cutlets 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. 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

Loin of pork
Forms the main body of the dish and provides the meat that cooks through under the broiler.
Egg
Binds the bread crumb coating to the cutlet surface when the optional coating is used.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned coating on the outside of the cutlets during broiling.
Minced sage
Adds an aromatic herb flavour to the bread crumb coating.

The step that matters

Broil the cutlets for 15 to 18 minutes. Cutlets cut ½ inch thick cook quickly, so overcooking can dry out the lean meat. Watching the time and fire keeps the pork juicy while the surface browns.

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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