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Peach Mangoes

Pickled peaches preserved with spices, vinegar, and mustard.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 18 ingredients
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Why it works: Horseradish and mustard match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,832 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Peach Mangoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peaches

  1. Soak the peaches in brine for 2 days, then wipe them dry.

  2. Remove the seed from each peach and fill the cavity with horseradish, mustard seeds, celery seed, garlic or onions, cloves, allspice, nutmeg, ginger, pepper, cinnamon, and sugar.

Pickle and seal

  1. Cover the filled peaches with cold vinegar, adding ½ cup of table mustard for each quart of vinegar.

  2. Season the vinegar with whole cloves, allspice, ginger, mustard, horseradish, stick cinnamon, and a bag of turmeric.

  3. Ensure the peaches are well covered and tightly seal the jar.

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.

Explore the science

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. Horseradish + mustardtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,832 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Clove + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Allspice + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,331 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Clove + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,686 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Mustard + celerytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,169 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Peaches
Form the main body of the pickle, absorbing the spiced brine and vinegar flavours.
Cold vinegar
Provides the acidity that preserves the fruit and gives the pickle its sharp flavour.
Sugar
Balances the sharp acidity of the vinegar with sweetness.
Table mustard
Adds pungency and a sharp, tangy bite to the pickling liquid.
Horseradish
Contributes a sharp, pungent heat that mellows during pickling.

The step that matters

Ensure the peaches are well covered and tightly seal the jar. Peaches exposed above the vinegar can spoil or darken from contact with air and mould growth. Keeping them fully submerged and sealing the jar limits exposure to air and microbes, helping the pickle keep.

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (horseradish, mustard, celery, garlic, clove, allspice, nutmeg):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against horseradish, mustard, celery, garlic, clove, allspice, nutmeg. 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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