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Pickled Radish Pods

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Radish and horseradish share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 38 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Pickled Radish Pods

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak the young radish pods in a mixture of salt and water overnight.

  2. Boil the saltwater mixture and pour it over the pods.

  3. Cover the jar tightly to retain steam.

  4. Once the mixture is nearly cool, pour it over the pods again.

  5. Repeat this process until the pods turn green.

  6. Drain the pods in a sieve.

  7. Prepare a pickle with white vinegar, mace, black pepper, and horseradish.

  8. Pour the boiling pickle over the pods.

  9. Seal the jar tightly and store for later use.

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. Radish + horseradishtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together38 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Pepper + horseradishtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,646 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Vinegar + horseradishtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,609 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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, horseradish):

  1. Tarragonfits better
  2. Dillfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Macethe original

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

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