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Green Pickle Gelatine

A gelatin dessert made with green peppers, cabbage, celery, vinegar, sugar, salt, pepper, and gelatin.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16,012 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Green Pickle Gelatine

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the green peppers, cabbage, and celery finely using a meat chopper.

  2. Dissolve the gelatine in cold water.

Make the gelatin

  1. Heat the vinegar.

  2. Add the heated vinegar to the dissolved gelatine.

  3. Mix all ingredients together.

  4. Set aside to cool.

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.

Explore the science

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. Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Pepper + cabbagetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,081 recipes

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

  3. Cabbage + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,840 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Cabbage + vinegartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Pepper + vinegartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

What each ingredient does

Gelatine
Sets the liquid into a firm, sliceable gel as it cools.
Vinegar
Adds sharp acidity that balances the sugar and sets the pickled flavor.
Sweet green peppers
Provide the main vegetable bulk and fresh, mild crunch.
Cabbage
Adds bulk and crisp texture that holds up within the gel.
Celery
Adds crunch and a fresh, savory note.

The step that matters

Dissolve the gelatine in cold water. Gelatine must be fully dissolved before it is combined with the hot vinegar and vegetables. Undissolved granules leave gritty specks and uneven setting, so the mixture may not set evenly.

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, cabbage, vinegar, sugar):

  1. Dillfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Allspicefits about as well
  4. Celerythe original

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

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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