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To Pickle Green Tomatoes

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Why it works: Ginger and mace are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,152 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

To Pickle Green Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash them and cut them in slices, with an equal number of white onions; put in a jar with a layer of tomatoes, then a layer of onions and salt ; let them remain twenty-four hours; take them out; have some good vinegar and pepper, white mustard seed, and cloves ; mix some mustard, flour, and tur- meric, with the vinegar ; and when boiling hot, put in the tomatoes and onions ; let them boil ten mi-

  2. FAMILY RECEIPT BOOK. 127

  3. nutes ; then take them up, and put them away ; in two weeks they will be fit for use ; at the end of that time boil the vinegar again, and pour over them.

  4. PICCALILLE.

  5. Piccalille is made in the same manner, only the vinegar must be cold when it is poured on : omit the cloves, as they will make them dark, and use white vinegar.

  6. CAULIFLOWER.

  7. Cut the cauliflower in small pieces, but long, so as to show the flower ; lay them twenty-four hours in salt and water; then take out and wash and drain them for two hours ; add to the vinegar, mus- tard seed, horse-radish, ginger, allsj)ice, and mace; boil for ten minutes, and pour over the cauliflower.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

5Calories
0 gProtein
0 gFat
0 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Macenot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Hodgson, Mary, fl. 1855. 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. See the original page.

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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. Ginger + macetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,152 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Vinegar + gingertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,126 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  3. Vinegar + macetop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,415 recipes

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

Swap the mace

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

  1. Allspicefits better
  2. Clovefits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Macethe original

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

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