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Pork Cutlets

Pork cutlets are pork chops fried or broiled, served with sauce and optional marinades.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 23 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

Grill or fry

  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 mixed with brown gravy.

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

Make the wine version

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

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

  3. Serve with the sauce from the cutlets, thickened with flour and butter, and stir in a little mustard.

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

What each ingredient does

Pork chops
Provide the main meat, which cooks through by grilling or frying.
Egg
Binds the bread crumb coating so it adheres to the cutlet during frying.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned crust when the coated cutlet is fried quickly.
Flour
Thickens the pan sauce so it becomes smooth and cohesive.
White wine
Adds acidity and aroma to the butter sauce the cutlets cook in.

The step that matters

Dry the cutlets before coating and frying quickly. Excess surface moisture keeps the egg and bread crumbs from adhering and steams the coating instead of browning it. Quick frying in hot fat then crisps the crust before the interior overcooks.

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.

“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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