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To Pickle Kidney-Beans

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Clove and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,038 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

To Pickle Kidney-Beans

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Gather kidney beans and vine leaves.

  2. Place vine leaves in a brass pan, then add the beans and cover with more vine leaves.

  3. Cook over low heat until the skins can be peeled off.

  4. Drain the beans and peel them carefully with a penknife.

  5. Return the peeled beans to the pan with vine leaves and water, cover, and cook until they are a fine green.

  6. Drain again and let cool.

  7. Submerge the beans in distilled vinegar, add a little meat oil on top, and seal with a bladder.

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. Clove + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,038 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Mace + clovetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  4. Vinegar + mustardtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Clove + mustardtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,829 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

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

Swap the kidney beans

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

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Chickpeafits better
  3. Walnutfits better
  4. Kidney beansthe original

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

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