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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 17 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Modern Cookery

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chop young onions and chilies finely.

  2. Crush green peaches, mangoes, and other unripe fruits into a pulp.

  3. Mash cooked potatoes and boil eggplant until soft, then reduce to a paste.

  4. Take fresh, salted, or smoked fish, remove bones and skin, and tear into small shreds.

  5. Combine all ingredients in a bowl, adding olive oil and vinegar to achieve a thick sauce consistency.

  6. Season with coarse sea salt to taste.

  7. Serve as a sauce with curry, cutlets, steaks, pork, cold meat, or fish.

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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Peach + mangotop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together59 recipes

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

  4. Peach + bananatop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together130 recipes

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

  5. Mango + bananatop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together122 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

Swap the banana

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, ginger, olive, vinegar, garlic, peach, mango):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, ginger, olive, vinegar, garlic, peach, mango. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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