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Pork Pot-pie

A savory pork stew topped with biscuit strips, cooked in a pot and served with gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Pork Pot-pie

Ingredients

Directions

Stew the pork

  1. Cover pork with cold water in a pot and add lemon slices, parsley, and celery.

  2. Stew slowly for 30 minutes.

  3. Add parboiled potatoes.

  4. Season with pepper and salt.

  5. Stir in flour.

  6. Add catsup if desired, then cover.

  7. Cook until the meat is tender.

Thicken the gravy

  1. Stir in butter rolled in flour.

  2. Boil briefly.

  3. Transfer pork to a deep dish.

  4. Leave gravy in the saucepan.

Top and serve

  1. Drop biscuit strips into boiling gravy.

  2. Cook for 10 minutes.

  3. Arrange half of the biscuits across the meat and the other half in the opposite direction.

  4. Pour gravy gently over the top and serve.

  5. Bake biscuit rounds separately and place on top of the meat and gravy.

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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Parsley + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Lemon + celerytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

What each ingredient does

Lean pork
Long, slow stewing breaks down connective tissue, leaving the meat tender and moist.
Potatoes
Starch from the parboiled slices adds body to the filling and gravy.
Flour
Starch thickens the cooking liquid into a gravy.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, which gives the gravy a smoother mouthfeel.
Biscuit dough
Forms a soft, bread-like topping that absorbs some of the gravy as it cooks.

The step that matters

Drop biscuit strips into boiling gravy. The gravy must be actively boiling so the dough cooks through from below while the top stays tender. If the liquid is too cool, the biscuits can turn gummy or stay raw in the center.

“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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