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Green Pepper Mangoes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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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 ↓

Green Pepper Mangoes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Slit the peppers between the veins and remove the seeds, leaving the stems on.

  2. Prepare a strong brine of cold salt water that can float a fresh egg and pour it over the seeded peppers.

  3. For three days, pour fresh brine over the peppers and discard the old brine, ensuring to drain the peppers well.

  4. In a bowl, mix the chopped cabbage, grated horseradish, mustard seed, celery seed, black pepper, salt, and brown sugar.

  5. Layer the mixture in jars, sprinkling a little brown sugar, crushed ginger, cloves, mace, onions, and horseradish between layers.

  6. Fill the jars with vinegar and seal them tightly.

  7. Stuff the peppers with the mixture and sew up the slit using a large needle and small twine.

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. Horseradish + mustardtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,832 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Cabbage + horseradishtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together481 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Cabbage + mustardtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,645 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

Swap the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, cabbage, horseradish, mustard, celery, sugar, vinegar):

  1. Tarragonfits better
  2. Dillfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Gingerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, cabbage, horseradish, mustard, celery, sugar, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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