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Peach Mangoes

A salad of peaches mixed with mustard seeds, turmeric, cloves, sweet oil, celery seed, red peppers, and onions.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and celery are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,169 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Peach Mangoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Get the peaches two-thirds ripe.

Combine and mix

  1. Combine all ingredients in a large bowl.

  2. Mix well to ensure even distribution of spices.

Rest

  1. Let the mixture sit for a few hours to meld flavors.

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. Mustard + celerytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,169 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Mustard + turmerictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,279 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Turmeric + clovetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,876 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Turmeric + celerytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,356 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

What each ingredient does

Peaches
Provide the fruit base and sweetness, with flesh that softens and absorbs the spice flavors.
White mustard seed
Adds sharp, pungent heat that balances the sweetness of the fruit.
Black mustard seed
Adds sharp, pungent heat and a more intense bite than white seed.
Turmeric
Adds earthy flavor and a deep yellow color to the mixture.
Sweet oil
Adds fat that carries the spice flavors and gives the mixture a richer mouthfeel.

The step that matters

Let the mixture sit for a few hours. Resting lets the spice and acid flavors penetrate the fruit and blend together. Skipping this rest leaves the spices tasting raw and separate from the fruit.

Swap the peach

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mustard, turmeric, clove, celery, pepper, onion):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mustard, turmeric, clove, celery, pepper, onion. 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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