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Indian Pickle

A mixed vegetable pickle with lemon, vinegar, sherry, and spices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Indian Pickle

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the vegetables: cauliflowers, French beans, peas, gherkins, small onions, capsicums, bird’s-eye chilies, garlic, eschalots, white hearts of summer cabbage, and tomato skins.

  2. Add a little coarse sea salt and cayenne pepper to the chopped vegetables.

Season and serve

  1. Mix in the juice of 1 lemon and ½ cup vinegar, then stir in ⅓ cup sherry and mix well.

  2. Serve fresh as a sauce with chops or steaks.

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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Capsicum + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,520 recipes

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

  3. Beans + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,713 recipes

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

  4. Cauliflower + cabbagetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together305 recipes

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

  5. Cauliflower + beanstop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together290 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Vinegar
Adds sharp acidity that gives the pickle its tangy flavour.
Sherry
Adds a mellow, fruity flavour that rounds out the sharpness.
Lemon juice
Adds bright acidity and fresh citrus aroma.
Cauliflowers
Provides the main crisp vegetable bulk and texture.

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cauliflower, beans, onion, capsicum, garlic, cabbage, tomato):

  1. Lentilsfits better
  2. Chickpeafits better
  3. Sesamefits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cauliflower, beans, onion, capsicum, garlic, cabbage, tomato. 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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