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Turkey Wheat Ble De Turquie Au Vinaigre

A pickled corn preserved in vinegar with salt and cloves.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cucumber and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,734 recipes. Both carry 2-methylbutyl acetate, which smells fruit. The science ↓

Turkey Wheat Ble De Turquie Au Vinaigre

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Strip off the leaves from the Turkey corn and remove the beard.

  2. Wipe the corn well and place it in a bottle.

Pickle

  1. Add a little salt and some cloves, then fill the bottle with fine white vinegar.

  2. Leave it for a few days.

  3. Drain the corn and boil the vinegar a dozen times.

  4. Let the vinegar cool, then pour it over the corn.

  5. Repeat this operation in a few days and ensure the bottle is well corked.

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. Cucumber + vinegartop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,734 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

  2. Cucumber + clovetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,319 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Corn + cucumbertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together387 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Corn + clovetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together712 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  5. Clove + vinegartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,386 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Turkey corn
Provides the crisp, firm vegetable base that absorbs the vinegar flavour.
Fine white vinegar
Acidic brine that preserves the corn and gives the pickle its sharp, sour taste.
Cloves
Adds warm, aromatic spice to the vinegar.

The step that matters

Boiling the vinegar and pouring it over the corn. Boiling the vinegar repeatedly and letting it cool before pouring keeps the corn submerged in hot, acidic liquid without cooking it, which helps the pickle stay firm and safe to keep. Sealing the bottle well limits air and contamination.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turkey, corn, cucumber, vinegar):

  1. Tarragonfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Celeryfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against turkey, corn, cucumber, 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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