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Pickled Herrings

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Ginger and turmeric match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,776 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Pickled Herrings

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a large jar, combine 1 gallon of vinegar with 1 lb bruised ginger, ½ lb mustard, ½ lb coarse sea salt, 2 oz mustard seed, 1½ oz turmeric, 1 oz ground black pepper, and ½ oz cayenne.

  2. Mix the mustard, turmeric, pepper, and cayenne with a little vinegar to form a smooth paste, then add to the jar and stir well.

  3. Keep the jar in a warm place and stir the mixture every morning for a month.

  4. As vegetables come into season, gather them on a dry day, wipe them to remove moisture, and add them raw to the pickle.

  5. Divide cauliflowers into small bunches before adding.

  6. After adding all the vegetables, store the pickle in jars and seal tightly.

  7. This pickle will be ready to eat after 12 months.

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. Ginger + turmerictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,776 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Turmeric + cauliflowertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together514 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Mustard + cauliflowertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together687 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Mustard + turmerictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,279 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vinegar, ginger, mustard, turmeric, pepper, cauliflower, celery):

  1. Broccolifits better
  2. Horseradishfits better
  3. Radishfits better
  4. Onionthe original

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

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