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Piquant Sauce

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 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 29,058 recipes mention both. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Piquant Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chop young onions and chilies finely.

  2. Combine with any desired fruits or vegetables, such as green peaches, mangoes, or mashed potatoes.

  3. Add olive oil and vinegar to achieve a thick sauce consistency.

  4. Season with coarse sea salt to taste.

  5. Serve 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Peach + mangotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together59 recipes

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

  5. Peach + bananatop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together130 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

The recipe marks garlic as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, olive, vinegar, peach, mango, banana, tomato):

  1. Garlicthe original
  2. Basilabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Peppermintabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Corianderabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, olive, vinegar, peach, mango, banana, tomato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

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