Name: Dill Pickles From Salt Stock
Ingredients: 200 gallons of water; 120 pounds of coarse sea salt; 8 pounds of dill spice; 10 gallons of 80-grain vinegar; 1 cask of salt dill

Why it works: Dill and vinegar work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 659 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Dill Pickles From Salt Stock

Ingredients

Directions

In a kettle or tank, combine the water and steam coil.
Add the coarse sea salt and dill spice to the water.
Pour in the vinegar and add the salt dill.
Cook all the ingredients together to create the brine.
Use this brine to process the dill pickles.

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.

Dill + vinegartop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together659 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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Dill Pickles From Salt Stock