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Dried Mango

A preserved mixture of dried mangoes, raisins, jaggery, ginger, garlic, and vinegar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Mango and ginger work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 280 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, pear. The science ↓

Dried Mango

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Clean the garlic.

  2. Dissolve the goor in a little vinegar.

  3. Pound the dried mangoes, raisins, green ginger, and garlic separately.

Combine

  1. Mix all the pounded ingredients together one by one.

  2. If the mixture is not sufficiently moist, add more vinegar.

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. Mango + gingertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together280 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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

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

  3. Raisin + gingertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,242 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Garlic + vinegartop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,115 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Mango + garlictop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together383 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

What each ingredient does

Dried mangoes
Provide the main fruit body, with concentrated sweetness and a chewy texture.
Raisins
Add concentrated sweetness and a soft, chewy texture to the mixture.
Goor (jaggery)
Adds sweetness and a deep, molasses-like flavor once dissolved.
Green ginger
Adds sharp, aromatic pungency that balances the sweetness.
Garlic
Adds pungent aroma and savory depth to the mixture.

Swap the raisin

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

  1. Limefits better
  2. Pineapplefits better
  3. Plumfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mango, ginger, garlic, vinegar. 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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