Name: Pork Cutlets and Mashed Potatoes
Ingredients: Pork cutlets; Pepper; Coarse sea salt; Mashed potatoes

Why it works: Pork and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,668 recipes. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

Pork Cutlets and Mashed Potatoes

Ingredients

Pork cutlets
Pepper
Coarse sea salt
Mashed potatoes

Directions

Cut the pork cutlets from the neck or loin.
Scrape the bone and trim the rind and fat.
Season the cutlets with pepper and coarse sea salt.
Grill the cutlets until cooked through.
Place the mashed potatoes on a serving dish.
Arrange the cutlets around the mashed potatoes.

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.

Pork + potatotop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,668 recipes

Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).
Pepper + potatotop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,305 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Pork + peppertop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,121 recipes

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