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Yellow Pickles

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Turmeric and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,776 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Yellow Pickles

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak your chosen vegetables in cold brine for one week.

  2. Expose the vegetables to the sun during the day and return them to the brine at night.

  3. After one week, soak the vegetables in vinegar for four days.

  4. Prepare onions by pouring boiling brine over them and letting them stand for four to five days.

  5. Bleach the onions as you did with the other vegetables.

  6. Combine the prepared vegetables with the pickle mixture.

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. Turmeric + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,776 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Ginger + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,038 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Turmeric + mustardtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,279 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Turmeric + clovetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,876 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Swap the white pepper

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

  1. Allspicefits better
  2. Cardamomfits better
  3. Cinnamonfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

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

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