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From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 26 ingredients
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Why it works: Cherry and peach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 177 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Pickles

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the vegetables and fruits by washing and cutting them as needed.

  2. Combine the ingredients in a large jar or container.

  3. Add salt and spices to taste, ensuring everything is well mixed.

  4. Seal the jar and let it sit in a cool place for a few days to ferment.

  5. Taste the pickles after a few days and adjust seasoning if necessary.

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. Cherry + peachtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together177 recipes

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

  2. Artichoke + cucumbertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together135 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Artichoke + mustardtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together116 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Mango + peachtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together59 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  5. Mustard + cucumbertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,281 recipes

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

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

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (artichoke, mustard, cabbage, cherry, cucumber, mango, pepper):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against artichoke, mustard, cabbage, cherry, cucumber, mango, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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