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Pork or Lamb Chops

A simple fried pork or lamb chop coated in egg and breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,371 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Pork or Lamb Chops

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dip the chops in beaten egg.

  2. Coat the chops with bread or cracker crumbs.

  3. Fry the chops in a skillet until thoroughly cooked and well browned.

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. Pork + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,371 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  2. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Pork + eggtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,387 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

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

What each ingredient does

Pork or lamb chops
Provide the main protein; thickness determines how long they need to cook through.
Egg
Acts as a binder so the crumb coating adheres to the chop.
Bread or cracker crumbs
Form a crisp coating that browns during frying.

The step that matters

Fry until thoroughly cooked and well browned. Pork and lamb must reach a safe internal temperature throughout, but over-frying dries the meat. Medium heat lets the thick chop cook through while the crumb coating browns gradually rather than scorching.

“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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