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Peach Mangoes

Peach Mangoes are mangoes soaked in salt and water, then pickled in a vinegar‑sugar solution.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Peach and mango share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 59 recipes. Both carry 2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, green. The science ↓

Peach Mangoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the peach mangoes in salt and water for two days.

  2. Carefully open the mangoes to extract the seed.

Pickle

  1. Boil the vinegar with the sugar until dissolved.

  2. Pour the vinegar mixture over the prepared mangoes.

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. Peach + mangotop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together59 recipes

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

  2. Vinegar + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,806 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Mango + vinegartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together256 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Peach + vinegartop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together348 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Peach + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Vinegar
Provides the acidity that preserves the mangoes and gives the pickle its sharp flavour.
Sugar
Balances the sharpness of the vinegar with sweetness.
Peach mangoes
Form the main fruit that absorbs the brine and pickling liquid.

Swap the mango

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peach, vinegar, sugar):

  1. Apricotfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Plumfits better
  4. Mangothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peach, vinegar, sugar. 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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