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Peach Mangoes

A preserved peach recipe using horseradish, mustard seed, sugar, vinegar, cloves, and cinnamon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Peach Mangoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peaches

  1. Wash and wipe the peaches well, then remove the seeds.

  2. Make a filling with grated horseradish and white mustard seed.

  3. Fill each peach half with the filling and tie the halves together.

Pickle and seal

  1. Place the filled peaches in a jar tightly.

  2. For every 3 quarts of fruit, combine 2 quarts of brown sugar and 1 quart of vinegar with cloves and stick of cinnamon.

  3. Heat the mixture until boiling and pour it over the fruit for 4 or 5 mornings.

  4. Seal the jar while hot.

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. Clove + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Horseradish + cinnamontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together515 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Peach + cinnamontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together625 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  5. Horseradish + clovetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,245 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Large ripe freestone peaches
Provide the fruit that becomes tender and absorbs the sweet-sour pickling liquid.
Brown sugar
Adds sweetness that balances the sharpness of the vinegar and helps preserve the fruit.
Vinegar
Provides acidity that preserves the fruit and gives the pickle its tang.
Grated horseradish
Adds a sharp, pungent heat that penetrates the peach during pickling.
White mustard seed
Contributes a sharp, pungent flavour to the filling.

The step that matters

Pouring the boiling mixture over the fruit. The liquid must be fully boiling so it heats the fruit and helps the sugar and vinegar work into it. Sealing the jar while hot helps create a vacuum seal that keeps the pickle stable.

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (horseradish, mustard, sugar, vinegar, clove, cinnamon):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against horseradish, mustard, sugar, vinegar, clove, cinnamon. 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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