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Yellow Mangoes

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Turmeric and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,776 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Yellow Mangoes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the mangoes in cold water and soak them in strong salt water until they turn yellow.

  2. Remove the insides, cover them with salt and a little water, and place them in the sun to bleach.

  3. After bleaching, soak them in cold water for 3-4 hours.

  4. Dye the mangoes in a mixture of turmeric and vinegar for 2-3 weeks.

  5. Prepare the garlic by sprinkling it with salt and sun-drying for 3-4 days, then wash and dry it.

  6. Combine half the garlic with vinegar, turmeric in a bag, ginger, allspice, long pepper, sugar, and horseradish.

  7. Set the vinegar mixture in the hot sun daily for a month.

  8. To stuff the mangoes, mix mace, turmeric, celery seed, remaining garlic, horseradish, and mustard seeds with sweet oil.

  9. Pack the mangoes in jars, cover with the vinegar mixture, and seal tightly.

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. Turmeric + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,776 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Turmeric + allspicetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together629 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Mango + turmerictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together256 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Turmeric + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,478 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the garlic

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

  1. Cardamomfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Clovefits better
  4. Garlicthe original

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

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