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Pickled Mangoes

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Horseradish and mustard match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,832 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Pickled Mangoes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut a round piece from the top of each musk melon and remove the seeds.

  2. Tie the pieces back on with thread and soak in strong brine for 10 days.

  3. Drain and wipe the melons, then place them in a kettle with nice leaves underneath and on top.

  4. Add a small piece of alum and heat over low fire, keeping the kettle tightly covered.

  5. Prepare a filling with scraped horseradish, white mustard seed, mace, nutmeg, green ginger, pepper, turmeric, and sweet oil.

  6. Fill each melon with the mixture and add a small clove of garlic to each.

  7. Replace the top pieces and sew them back on with strong thread.

  8. Pack the filled melons into stone jars and pour boiling vinegar over them.

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. Horseradish + mustardtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,832 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Ginger + turmerictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,776 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Mustard + turmerictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,279 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Horseradish + turmerictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together437 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Mace + nutmegtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,557 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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

Swap the musk melon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (horseradish, mustard, mace, nutmeg, ginger, pepper, turmeric):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Musk melonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against horseradish, mustard, mace, nutmeg, ginger, pepper, turmeric. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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