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Brandt Melon-rinds

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and angelica match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 189 recipes. Both carry (e,e)-2,4-decadienal, which smells fatty, deep fried. The science ↓

Brandt Melon-rinds

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut away the juicy part and superficial part of the melon rind.

  2. Cut the rind into square pieces.

  3. Soak the pieces in a basin of cold water and lemon juice.

  4. Place the basin on the fire and bring to a boil for 2-3 times.

  5. Let the rind stew for 1 hour.

  6. Transfer the pieces to another basin of water with lemon juice to cool.

  7. Prepare a syrup with sugar, adding fresh angelica and fresh ginger root or lemon essence.

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. Lemon + angelicatop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together189 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  2. Lemon + gingertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,154 recipes

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

  3. Melon + gingertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together342 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Angelica + gingertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together49 recipes

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

  5. Melon + lemontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together362 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

Swap the melon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, sugar, angelica, ginger):

  1. Orangefits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Melonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, sugar, angelica, ginger. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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