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Bread and Butter Pickles

By bunkycooks · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and celery are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 4,160 recipes mention both. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Mustard + celerytop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,160 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Mustard + vinegartop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Cucumber + vinegartop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,705 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

  4. Cucumber + mustardtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,279 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Celery + gingertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together988 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

Mustard and vinegar share little aroma chemistry, yet 14,067 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cucumber, sugar, mustard, celery, ginger, vinegar):

  1. Radishbetter flavor fit
  2. Broccolibetter flavor fit
  3. Lettucebetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cucumber, sugar, mustard, celery, ginger, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).