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Pickled Mtishroohs

Pickled mushrooms are small button mushrooms preserved in a spiced vinegar brine.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and clove 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 ↓

Pickled Mtishroohs

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut off the end of each mushroom stalk.

  2. Scrape, wash, and spread the mushrooms out to drain.

Pickle and seal

  1. In a pot, combine vinegar, cinnamon, mace, cloves, allspice, and salt.

  2. Boil the mixture and pour it over the mushrooms while hot.

  3. Seal the jars tightly once the mushrooms cool.

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. Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

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

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Cinnamon + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Mace + clovetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  5. Mace + allspicetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,189 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

Vinegar
Acidity that preserves the mushrooms and gives the pickle its sharp flavour.
Small mushrooms
Main ingredient that soaks up the spiced vinegar and becomes tender and flavourful.
Cloves
Adds warm aromatic flavour that infuses into the pickling liquid.

The step that matters

Pour the boiling mixture over the mushrooms while hot. Hot pickling liquid helps the mushrooms take up flavour and reduces surface microbes before sealing. Letting it cool first can leave the mushrooms less flavoured and less protected.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mushroom, vinegar, cinnamon, clove, allspice):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Gingerfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, vinegar, cinnamon, clove, allspice. 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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