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Pickles, Catsups and Relishes

A pickled relish made from persimmons, ginger, and garlic.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Ginger and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,402 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Pickles, Catsups and Relishes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pound or mash the garlic to a pulp.

  2. Mix all the ingredients well together.

Bottle and age

  1. Put the mixture in bottles or jars.

  2. Allow to age for improved flavor.

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. Ginger + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,402 recipes

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

  2. Persimmon + gingertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Persimmon + garlictop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Persimmons
Forms the fruit base, giving body and natural sweetness to the mixture.
Ginger
Adds warm, sharp aroma that lifts the fruit flavor.
Garlic
Adds pungent aroma that mellows and blends into the mixture during aging.

The step that matters

Allow to age. Resting lets the sharp garlic and ginger flavors mellow and blend with the fruit. Serving too soon can leave the flavors harsh and disconnected.

Swap the persimmon

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

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Persimmonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ginger, garlic. 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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