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To Pickle Asparagus

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Asparagus and vinegar work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 439 recipes. Both carry acetoin, which smells butter, cream. The science ↓

To Pickle Asparagus

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour boiling water mixed with coarse sea salt over the asparagus and cover tightly.

  2. The next day, remove the asparagus and dry it.

  3. Soak the asparagus in vinegar.

  4. Finally, combine the asparagus with the yellow pickle.

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. Asparagus + vinegartop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together439 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetoin (butter, cream).

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

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