Name: Radish Pods
Ingredients: salt; water; radish pods; boiling vinegar; black peppercorns; Jamaica peppercorns; cloves

Why it works: Radish and vinegar work together. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 508 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Radish Pods

Ingredients

Directions

Boil salt and water in a pot.
Add the radish pods and boil for three minutes.
Drain the pods and let them sit for a few hours.
Place the pods in a jar.
Pour boiling vinegar over the pods, adding black and Jamaica peppercorns and a few cloves.
Seal the jar as usual.

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.

Radish + vinegartop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together508 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Radish + clovetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together196 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Vinegar + clovetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together10,386 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).