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Sauce, Mango Chetney

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Garlic and onion 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 ↓

Sauce, Mango Chetney

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Make the sugar into syrup.

  2. Finely pound the garlic, onions, and ginger in a mortar.

  3. Wash the mustard seed in cold vinegar and dry it in the sun.

  4. Peel, core, and slice the apples, then boil them in 1½ bottles of vinegar.

  5. Once the apples are cold, place them in a large pan.

  6. Gradually mix in the remaining ingredients, including the rest of the vinegar.

  7. Stir well until everything is thoroughly blended.

  8. Bottle the mixture and cork well.

  9. Tie a piece of wet bladder over the mouths of the bottles.

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. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Garlic + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Onion + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Garlic + gingertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,402 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Mustard + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, garlic, onion, ginger, mustard, vinegar, apple):

  1. Plumfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Raisinthe original

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

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