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To Pickle Radish Pods

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and turmeric are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,478 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

To Pickle Radish Pods

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut radish pods into nice bunches when fully formed; they should be young and tender.

  2. Pour boiling water mixed with coarse sea salt over the pods and cover with a thick cloth and a pewter plate to keep in the steam.

  3. Repeat this daily until the pods turn a good green color.

  4. Place the pods in cold vinegar with mace and whole pepper.

  5. Mix a little turmeric with a small amount of oil and stir it into the vinegar to enhance the color of the pods.

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. Pepper + turmerictop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,478 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Radish + turmerictop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together87 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Radish + vinegartop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together508 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Radish + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together382 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  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 mace

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

  1. Corianderfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Allspicefits better
  4. Macethe original

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

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