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Peach Mangoes

Peaches preserved in a brine with sugar, onion, garlic, horseradish, mustard seed, spices, and vinegar.

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 ↓

Peach Mangoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peaches

  1. Prepare a brine as directed in the pickled peaches recipe.

  2. Choose fresh peaches, brush them clean, and soak them in cold brine for three days.

  3. Remove peaches from brine, cut a small piece from the top, and remove the stone without enlarging the hole.

Make and stuff

  1. In a bowl, mix brown sugar, onion, garlic, horseradish, mustard seed, cinnamon, cloves, mace, and turmeric. Add enough salad oil to moisten the mixture.

  2. Stuff the peaches with the mixture, close the cut with a piece of peach, and secure it with thread.

Jar and seal

  1. Place the stuffed peaches in glass jars, cover with cold vinegar, add 2 tablespoons of salad oil to each jar, and seal airtight.

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.

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. 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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Garlic + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Peaches
Form the main body of the pickle, absorbing the brine and spiced filling as they soak.
Brown sugar
Adds sweetness that balances the sharp vinegar and horseradish.
Horseradish
Contributes sharp pungency that mellows during the long pickling period.
Mustard seed
Adds a sharp, pungent bite and textural crunch to the filling.
Cold vinegar
Provides acidity that preserves the peaches and gives the pickle its tang.

The step that matters

Soaking the peaches in brine for three days. Brine draws out water and firms the fruit, so the peaches hold their shape and absorb flavor evenly. Skipping or shortening the soak leaves fruit soft and under-seasoned.

Swap the peach

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, onion, clove, garlic, horseradish, mustard, cinnamon. 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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