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Peach Mangoes

Pickled peaches spiced with mustard, cloves, mace, cinnamon, and sweetened vinegar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Clove and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,189 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Peach Mangoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the peaches to remove fuzz and cut them in half.

  2. Fill each peach half with white mustard, a few cloves, mace, and cinnamon.

  3. Tie the peach halves together and place them in a jar.

Pickle

  1. Pour boiling vinegar sweetened to taste over the peaches for three mornings.

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. Clove + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Peach + cinnamontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together625 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  3. Clove + macetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  4. Mustard + cinnamontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,581 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Mustard + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Peaches
The fruit being preserved; its flesh softens and absorbs the vinegar and spices.
Vinegar
Acidity that preserves the fruit and gives the pickle its sharp, tangy flavour.
Sugar
Sweetness that balances the sharpness of the vinegar.
Cloves
Warm aromatic spice that flavours the peach flesh.

The step that matters

Pour the boiling vinegar over the peaches. The vinegar's acidity is what preserves the fruit and inhibits spoilage microbes, so it must be poured while boiling and cover the peaches fully. The heat helps the sweetened vinegar and spices penetrate the flesh, and it should be sweetened before pouring so the balance is set.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peach, mustard, clove, cinnamon, vinegar, sugar):

  1. Allspicefits better
  2. Cardamomfits better
  3. Nutmegfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peach, mustard, clove, cinnamon, vinegar, sugar. 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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