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Pickles Akd Preserves

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Mushroom and mace are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,529 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Pickles Akd Preserves

Oven, in the book's wordsA cool oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Lay mushrooms on a sieve with stalks up and sprinkle with fine salt to draw out water.

  2. After draining, place them in a deep jar and set in a cool oven for 1 hour.

  3. Remove mushrooms and let them cool on a dish.

  4. Boil the liquid that has collected with a blade of mace until reduced by half.

  5. Once cooled, pour the reduced liquid over the mushrooms in a clean jar.

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. Mushroom + macetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,529 recipes

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

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

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