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To Pickle Radish-pods

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Radish and horse work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 529 recipes. Both carry 2-methylbutyraldehyde, which smells malty, chocolate. The science ↓

To Pickle Radish-pods

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Gather young radish-pods and soak them in salt and water overnight.

  2. Boil the salt and water, then pour it over the pods in jars, covering them tightly.

  3. Once the brine is cold, boil it again and pour it hot over the pods, repeating until they turn green.

  4. Drain the pods in a sieve.

  5. Make a pickle with white-wine vinegar, mace, ginger, long pepper, and horse-radish.

  6. Pour the boiling pickle over the pods, and when nearly cold, boil it again and pour it over them.

  7. Once cold, seal the jars.

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. Radish + horsetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together529 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  2. Radish + gingertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together172 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Radish + vinegartop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together508 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Ginger + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,800 recipes

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

  5. Radish + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together382 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (radish, wine, vinegar, ginger, pepper, horse):

  1. Turmericfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Clovefits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against radish, wine, vinegar, ginger, pepper, horse. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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