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Peach Mangoes

A pickled peach recipe using vinegar, sugar, and spices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Clove and allspice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,874 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Peach Mangoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peaches

  1. Brine the peaches for 24 hours.

  2. Cut open one side and remove the seed.

Fill and pack

  1. Fill the peaches with a mixture of chopped peach, white mustard seed, ginger, cloves, allspice, turmeric, black pepper, sugar, and celery seed.

  2. Tie the peaches closed and pack them in a jar with the open side up.

Cover and pickle

  1. Cover the peaches with cold vinegar, using 3 pounds of sugar for each gallon of vinegar.

  2. Add 3 ounces of turmeric per gallon for a yellow color.

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. Clove + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Ginger + turmerictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,776 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Ginger + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,038 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Ginger + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,620 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Mustard + allspicetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,928 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

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

What each ingredient does

Large open-stone peaches
Provide the fruit that softens and absorbs the spiced pickling liquid.
Cold vinegar
Adds acidity that preserves the fruit and gives the pickle its sharp taste.
Sugar
Adds sweetness that balances the sharpness of the vinegar.
White mustard seed
Adds a sharp, pungent flavor to the chopped peach filling.
Turmeric
Gives the pickle its yellow color.

Swap the peach

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against vinegar, sugar, mustard, ginger, clove, allspice, turmeric. 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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