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Chine of Pork

Pork should always be thoroughly cooked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 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. Score the chine of pork with a knife.

  2. Roast or bake the scored chine until cooked through.

  3. Serve with apple, gooseberry, piquant, tomato, or Robert sauce.

  4. 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

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.

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