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Bamboo Pickle

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Ginger and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,038 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Bamboo Pickle

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut young bamboo shoots into ½ inch lengths.

  2. Sprinkle with salt and let sit for 1-2 days.

  3. Combine bamboo shoots, ginger, black peppercorns, and garlic in a jar.

  4. Fill the jar with vinegar and set in the sun for 1 week.

  5. For a spicy version, add green chillies or cayenne salt.

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 + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,038 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Bamboo shoots + gingertop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together80 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Bamboo shoots + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together66 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  4. Ginger + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,402 recipes

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

  5. Clove + garlictop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bamboo shoots, ginger, garlic, vinegar):

  1. Corianderfits better
  2. Turmericfits better
  3. Cuminfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bamboo shoots, ginger, garlic, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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