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Mustard Pickle

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 17 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,189 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Mustard Pickle

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a kettle that holds a little more than a gallon, layer grape leaves at the bottom.

  2. Sprinkle in pulverized alum, cinnamon, allspice, black pepper, red pepper, and sugar.

  3. Continue layering fruit and cover with vinegar.

  4. Simmer over low heat until the fruit is green.

  5. In a bowl, mix mustard with vinegar and sugar until smooth.

  6. Add cloves, mace, allspice, celery seed, cinnamon, turmeric, and salad oil; mix well.

  7. Drain the vinegar from the fruit and pour the mustard mixture over it.

  8. Allow the whole to boil for a few minutes.

  9. Let it sit for three weeks before using.

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. Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Allspice + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Cinnamon + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Allspice + mustardtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,928 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  5. Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Swap the grape

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cinnamon, allspice, pepper, sugar, vinegar, mustard, clove):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Grapethe original

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

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