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Chutney Sauce

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Tamarind and ginger work together. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 325 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Chutney Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine tamarinds, minced apples, tomatoes, pulped medlars, sultana raisins, grocers’ currants, bruised garlic, powdered ginger, and brown sugar in a large pot.

  2. Add the grated rinds and juice of the lemons, bruised salprunella, bruised red chillies, chopped green mint, and strong vinegar.

  3. Stir well and let the mixture sit to develop flavors.

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. Tamarind + gingertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together325 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Tomato + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

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

  4. Tamarind + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together137 recipes

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

  5. Tamarind + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together395 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

Swap the medlar

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tamarind, apple, tomato, raisin, currant, garlic, ginger):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Plumfits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Medlarthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tamarind, apple, tomato, raisin, currant, garlic, ginger. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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