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To Pickle Melon Mangoes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Melon and mango share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 48 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

To Pickle Melon Mangoes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the melon mangoes in half and remove the pulpy part and seeds.

  2. Soak the halves in strong brine for one week.

  3. Fill the halves with mustard seed and garlic, then tie them together with string.

  4. Place them in jars and pour boiling spiced vinegar over them.

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. Melon + mangotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together48 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  2. Mustard + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Mustard + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  5. Mango + mustardtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together136 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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 (mango, mustard, garlic, vinegar):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Pineapplefits better
  4. Melonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mango, mustard, garlic, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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