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
Brine the peaches for 24 hours.
Cut open one side and remove the seed.
Fill and pack
Fill the peaches with a mixture of chopped peach, white mustard seed, ginger, cloves, allspice, turmeric, black pepper, sugar, and celery seed.
Tie the peaches closed and pack them in a jar with the open side up.
Cover and pickle
Cover the peaches with cold vinegar, using 3 pounds of sugar for each gallon of vinegar.
Add 3 ounces of turmeric per gallon for a yellow color.
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.
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Clove + allspicetop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together7,874 recipes
Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
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Ginger + turmerictop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together2,776 recipes
Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
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Ginger + clovetop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together6,038 recipes
Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
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Ginger + allspicetop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together2,620 recipes
Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).
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Mustard + allspicetop 2% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked 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):
- Limefits better
- Lemonfits better
- Mangofits better
- 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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