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Pickled Vegetable Mangoes

Pickled mangoes stuffed with a spice and vegetable mixture, then scalded in vinegar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and horseradish 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 ↓

Pickled Vegetable Mangoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Take 12 mangoes and set aside.

  2. In a bowl, combine 1 cup each of white and black mustard seed, horseradish, cloves, mace, cinnamon, black pepper, celery seed, and 1 cup of sugar.

  3. Mince the cabbage finely.

  4. Pour hot vinegar over the minced cabbage.

  5. Let the mixture stand for 30 minutes.

  6. Drain the cabbage mixture.

  7. Let it cool.

Stuff and scald

  1. Mix the cooled cabbage with the spice mixture, adding small beans and cucumbers.

  2. Stuff the mangoes with the mixture.

  3. Place the filled mangoes seam side up in a kettle and gently scald with vinegar.

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. Mustard + horseradishtop 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. Mustard + celerytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,169 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

What each ingredient does

Mangoes
Provide the fruit body that is stuffed and pickled, giving the dish its main flavor and texture.
Mustard seed
Supplies sharp, pungent flavor that mellows during pickling.
Cabbage
Adds crunch and bulk to the filling, absorbing the vinegar and spices.
Vinegar
Acidifies the mixture, preserving the vegetables and sharpening the flavor.
Sugar
Balances the sharpness of the vinegar and mustard with sweetness.

The step that matters

Gently scalding the stuffed mangoes. Heating the vinegar too hard or too long can soften the mango flesh until it collapses. Gentle heat lets the acid penetrate and preserve the fruit while keeping its shape and texture.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mango, mustard, horseradish, clove, cinnamon, pepper, celery):

  1. Allspicefits better
  2. Turmericfits better
  3. Nutmegfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mango, mustard, horseradish, clove, cinnamon, pepper, celery. 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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