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Stuffed Peaches

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Horseradish and mustard match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,832 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Stuffed Peaches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak the peaches in a mixture of salt and water for 2 days, covered with a board.

  2. Wipe the peaches dry and cut them open to remove the stones.

  3. Prepare the stuffing by mixing minced garlic, horseradish, mustard seed, cloves, and sliced ginger.

  4. Fill the peaches with the stuffing and secure them with string.

  5. Season the vinegar with broken cinnamon, fresh mustard, ginger, and nutmeg.

  6. Mix well and fill a jar with the prepared pickling mixture.

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. Horseradish + mustardtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,832 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Ginger + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,380 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Clove + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,038 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Garlic + horseradishtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together719 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (garlic, horseradish, mustard, clove, ginger, vinegar, cinnamon):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against garlic, horseradish, mustard, clove, ginger, vinegar, cinnamon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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