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Peach Mangoes

A preserved peach recipe with horseradish, mustard, vinegar, sugar, cloves, and cinnamon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Peach Mangoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peaches

  1. Wipe the peaches clean and cut them in half, removing the stones.

  2. Mix equal parts of grated horseradish and black mustard seed.

  3. Fill each peach half with this mixture.

  4. Tie the peach halves together.

Make the syrup

  1. In a pot, combine the vinegar, brown sugar, whole cloves, and cinnamon bag.

  2. Boil the mixture.

Pack and cover

  1. Pour it hot over the packed peaches in small crocks.

  2. Cover the crocks well.

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.

Explore the science

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. Clove + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Horseradish + cinnamontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together515 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Peach + cinnamontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together625 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  5. Horseradish + clovetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,245 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Peaches
Form the main body of the pickle, absorbing the spiced vinegar syrup as they sit.
Vinegar
Acidic liquid that preserves the peaches and gives the pickle its sharp flavour.
Brown sugar
Adds sweetness that balances the sharpness of the vinegar.
Grated horseradish
Contributes sharp, pungent heat that mellows as the pickle sits.
Black mustard seed
Adds a pungent, slightly bitter bite and texture to the filling.

The step that matters

Pour the syrup hot over the peaches. The syrup must be fully boiled and poured hot so it penetrates the fruit and begins preserving it. Cooling or weak boiling leaves the peaches less protected against spoilage.

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (horseradish, mustard, vinegar, sugar, clove, cinnamon):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Quincefits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against horseradish, mustard, vinegar, sugar, clove, cinnamon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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