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Pickled Eggs

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Allspice and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,620 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Pickled Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil as many eggs as you wish until hard.

  2. Place the boiled eggs in cold water until you can remove the shells carefully.

  3. Lay the eggs in wide-mouthed jars.

  4. Pour scalding vinegar over the eggs, seasoned with whole pepper, allspice, and ginger root or your preferred spices.

  5. When the mixture is cold, cover the jars closely.

  6. Let the eggs sit for a month before using.

  7. These pickled eggs make a nice relish for cold meats.

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. Allspice + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,620 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Pepper + allspicetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,395 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Pepper + gingertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,800 recipes

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

  4. Vinegar + allspicetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,548 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

  5. Vinegar + peppertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

Swap the ginger

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

  1. Tarragonfits better
  2. Clovefits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Gingerthe original

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

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