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Peach Mangoes

Pickled peaches with cucumbers, onions, mustard seed, celery seed, cloves, spice mix, sugar, salad oil, and vinegar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and celery are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,169 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Peach Mangoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peaches

  1. Split the peaches and remove the stones.

  2. Soak the peaches in weak brine for 24 hours.

  3. Remove peaches and soak in alum water overnight.

Make the filling

  1. Chop the cucumbers and onions, then mix with mustard seed, celery seed, cloves, spice mix, sugar, and salad oil.

  2. Fill the peaches with the mixture and tie them together.

Pickle and seal

  1. Place the filled peaches in a kettle and cover with vinegar.

  2. Heat thoroughly, then transfer to jars and seal.

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.

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. Mustard + celerytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,169 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Cucumber + mustardtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,281 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Onion + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Celery + clovetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  5. Onion + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Freestone peaches
Provide the fruit that is filled and pickled, staying whole after splitting and soaking.
Cucumbers
Add crisp, bulky texture to the filling.
Onions
Add savory flavor and aroma to the filling.
Sugar
Adds sweetness that balances the sharp vinegar.
Mustard seed
Contributes pungent, sharp flavor to the pickling mixture.

The step that matters

Heat thoroughly before sealing. Heating the filled peaches in vinegar brings the whole mass to temperature so the jars can be sealed safely and the pickle keeps. Under-heating leaves the centre cool and the contents more likely to spoil.

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cucumber, onion, mustard, celery, clove, sugar, vinegar):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cucumber, onion, mustard, celery, clove, sugar, vinegar. 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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