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Pickled Cauliflower

Pickled cauliflower with curry powder, brine, and vinegar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cauliflower and vinegar work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 888 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Pickled Cauliflower

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove all leaves and trim the stalks of the cauliflower.

  2. Separate the flowers into bunches.

  3. Steep the bunches in brine for 2 days.

Pickle

  1. Drain the cauliflower and wipe it dry.

  2. Place it in hot pickle.

  3. Infuse 3 ounces of curry powder in each quart of vinegar for 3 days.

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. Cauliflower + vinegartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together888 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Firm cauliflower
Its dense, firm florets hold their crunch through brining and pickling.
Vinegar
Provides the sour acidity that defines the pickle and helps preserve the cauliflower.
Curry powder
Infuses the vinegar with its spice aroma, flavor and yellow color.

The step that matters

Wipe the cauliflower dry before placing it in the hot pickle. Surface water clinging to the cauliflower dilutes the vinegar, weakening its acidity and flavor, and can make the pickle less stable and less crisp.

“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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