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Pickled Peach Mangoes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 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 Peach Mangoes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak the peaches in brine for 2 days.

  2. Mix chopped garlic, sliced race ginger, grated horseradish, white mustard seed, black mustard seed, and celery seed to taste.

  3. Remove the peaches from the brine, cut them open, and remove the pits.

  4. Fill the peaches with the mixture and tie them up.

  5. Pour cold vinegar over the filled peaches and let them sit for a few weeks.

  6. Afterward, pour spiced vinegar over the peaches.

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 + celerytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,169 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (garlic, ginger, horseradish, mustard, celery, vinegar, turmeric):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Peachthe original

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

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