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Chine of Pork

A roasted or baked pork chine served with apple, gooseberry, Robert, or tomato sauce, potatoes, and green vegetables.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and potato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,798 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Chine of Pork

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Roast or bake the chine of pork until fully cooked.

  2. Serve with your choice of apple, gooseberry, Robert, or tomato sauce.

  3. Accompany with potatoes and any green vegetables.

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. Tomato + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,798 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Pork + potatotop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  3. Apple + gooseberrytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together44 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl isobutyrate (flower).

  4. Pork + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,843 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Gooseberry + tomatotop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14 recipes

    Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Chine of pork
Forms the main cut of meat, providing the richness and substance of the dish.
Potatoes
Add starch and bulk, soaking up the meat juices alongside the sauces.

Swap the gooseberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, apple, sauce, tomato, potato):

  1. Plumfits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Gooseberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, apple, sauce, tomato, potato. 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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