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Genuine Indian Method of Cooking a Curry

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 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 ↓

Genuine Indian Method of Cooking a Curry

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the meat or fowl into pieces suitable for a fricassee.

  2. Fry the meat until light brown.

  3. Stew the meat in gravy.

  4. Add 1-2 tablespoons of curry powder, adjusting based on the amount of meat.

  5. If needed, add grated ginger, turmeric, and Cayenne pepper.

  6. Once stewed, thicken the mixture with butter rolled in flour and some cream.

  7. Stir in a little lemon juice, shallots, and garlic.

  8. Serve garnished with slices of lemon.

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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Turmeric + lemontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,192 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Ginger + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,154 recipes

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

  5. Turmeric + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,478 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Swap the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, turmeric, pepper, butter, flour, cream, lemon):

  1. Cardamomfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Nutmegfits better
  4. Gingerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, turmeric, pepper, butter, flour, cream, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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