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Chopped Pickle

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Chopped Pickle

Why it works: Celery and mustard are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,169 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Chopped Pickle

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Sprinkle coarse sea salt over the cabbage and tomatoes, and let them drain overnight.

  2. Rinse the cabbage and tomatoes with water in the morning.

  3. Put the celery seed, mustard seed, and turmeric in vinegar and boil.

  4. Pour the hot mixture over the ingredients.

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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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. Celery + mustardtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,169 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Mustard + turmerictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,279 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Cucumber + mustardtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,281 recipes

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

  4. Mustard + cabbagetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,645 recipes

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

  5. Tomato + cucumbertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,405 recipes

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

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

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, cucumber, celery, mustard, turmeric, sugar, cabbage):

  1. Horseradishfits better
  2. Cauliflowerfits better
  3. Lettucefits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, cucumber, celery, mustard, turmeric, sugar, cabbage. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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