Skip to main content

Curry

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓
Curry

Why it works: Apple and cocoa work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 52 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Curry

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook the meat in liquid for half an hour without boiling to keep it tender.

  2. Just before serving, heat the meat over the fire for a minute without boiling.

  3. Place the meat on a dish and arrange the rice around it like a wall.

  4. Ensure the curry sauce is thick, not liquid.

  5. If apples are unavailable, use green gooseberries or lemon juice for acidity.

  6. Add freshly grated cocoa-nut or grated Brazil nuts for extra flavor.

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.

Photo for illustrative purposes only · Contact us to use it

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.

  1. Apple + cocoatop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together52 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Rice + cocoatop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together93 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Meat + ricetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Rice + appletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,311 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Meat + cocoatop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together54 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, rice, cocoa):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Orangefits about as well
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, rice, cocoa. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

You might also like

Rice FrittersRice Fritters84 recipesMeat CroquettesMeat Croquettes52 recipesSteamed RiceSteamed Rice48 recipesMeatballsMeatballs37 recipes