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Meat Relishes

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and cranberry match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 169 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Meat Relishes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Serve apple sauce with roast pork or roast goose.

  2. Serve catsup or horseradish with roast beef.

  3. Serve tomato or mushroom sauce with roast veal.

  4. Serve currant jelly with roast mutton.

  5. Serve mint sauce with roast lamb.

  6. Serve cranberry sauce with roast turkey.

  7. Serve oyster sauce with boiled turkey.

  8. Serve black currant jelly with venison or wild duck.

  9. Serve stewed gooseberries with broiled mackerel.

  10. Serve green peas with cream sauce alongside fresh salmon.

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. Apple + cranberrytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together169 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Tomato + mushroomtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,719 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Tomato + cranberrytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together66 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Horseradish + cranberrytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Mint + cranberrytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together39 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, sauce, horseradish, tomato, mushroom, mint, cranberry):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Plumfits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, sauce, horseradish, tomato, mushroom, mint, cranberry. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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