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Curry

Why it works: Clove and cinnamon 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 ↓

Curry

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Skin and prepare the rabbit or chicken for cooking.

  2. Cut the meat into even-sized pieces.

  3. Pound ½ ounce of coriander seed finely in a mortar.

  4. Transfer the pounded coriander to a piece of paper.

  5. Peel 2 cloves of garlic and place them in the mortar.

  6. Add 2 teaspoons of turmeric to the mortar.

  7. Include 8 berries of red pepper and 2 inches of cinnamon stick.

  8. Add 4 cardamom pods.

  9. Slice the green ginger thinly and add it to the mortar.

  10. Peel and quarter 3 small onions, then add them to the mortar with the ginger.

  11. Pound all the spices and onions together until fine.

  12. Mix in the pounded coriander seed.

  13. Transfer the mixture to a bowl.

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 + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Turmeric + cardamomtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together667 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Cinnamon + cardamomtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,299 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Coriander + cardamomtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together872 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Clove + cardamomtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,114 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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 (rabbit, coriander, clove, turmeric, pepper, cinnamon, cardamom):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Allspicefits better
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rabbit, coriander, clove, turmeric, pepper, cinnamon, cardamom. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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