Why it works: Horseradish and mustard 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 ↓
Peach Mangoes
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare a brine as directed in the recipe for pickled peaches.
Choose fresh, sound peaches and brush them with a soft brush.
Soak the peaches in cold brine for three days.
Remove the peaches from the brine and cut a piece out of the top of each one.
Carefully remove the stone without enlarging the hole.
In a bowl, mix together brown sugar, onion, garlic, horseradish, mustard seed, cinnamon, cloves, mace, and turmeric.
Moisten the mixture with sufficient salad oil.
Fill each peach with the mixture and close the cut with a piece of peach.
Sew or tie the cut closed.
Place the stuffed peaches into glass jars and cover them with cold vinegar.
Add 2 tablespoons of salad oil to each jar and seal them airtight.
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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Horseradish + mustardtop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together1,832 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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Clove + cinnamontop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together14,189 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).
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Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together29,058 recipes
Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
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Garlic + horseradishtop 5% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together719 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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Garlic + mustardtop 6% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together4,053 recipes
Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, onion, clove, garlic, horseradish, mustard, cinnamon):
- Avocadofits better
- Limefits better
- Lemonfits better
- Peachthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, onion, clove, garlic, horseradish, mustard, cinnamon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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