Why it works: Vinegar and mutton work together. They rank in the top 25% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 615 recipes. Both carry 3-methylbutanol, which smells malty, whiskey. The science ↓
Pickled Vegetables
Ingredients
Directions
Wash the vegetables thoroughly.
Soak them in brine (1 lb salt to 1 gallon water) for 48 hours.
Re-wash the vegetables well.
Pack the vegetables into jars.
Completely cover with spiced vinegar.
Seal securely with mutton fat or wax.
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 pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.
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Vinegar + muttontop 25% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together615 recipes
Shared aroma: 3-methylbutanol (malty, whiskey).
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