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Mango Stew for Tarts

A sweet mango stew seasoned with allspice, used as a filling for tarts.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Mango and allspice share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43 recipes. Both carry 2-methylbutyl acetate, which smells fruit. The science ↓

Mango Stew for Tarts

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Peel and slice the green mangoes.

Cook the mango

  1. Boil the mango slices in water until tender.

  2. Drain the water and add sugar, allspice, and a little water.

  3. Simmer for a few minutes.

  4. Transfer the mixture to a pie dish, ready for the crust.

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. Mango + allspicetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together43 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

  2. Mango + sugartop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together561 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Sugar + allspicetop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,938 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

What each ingredient does

Green mangoes
Provide the main body and tart flavour of the stew.
Sugar
Adds sweetness to balance the tartness of the green mangoes.

Swap the allspice

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mango, sugar):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Gingerfits better
  3. Turmericfits better
  4. Allspicethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mango, 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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