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Fruit Salad

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and grape match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 709 recipes. Both carry 1-hexanal, which smells fruit. The science ↓

Fruit Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a large bowl, combine the pineapple, white cherries, grapes, pecans, and Maraschino cherries.

  2. In a saucepan, whisk together the egg yolks, sugar, butter, mustard, salt, paprika, and vinegar.

  3. Boil the mixture, then remove from heat and let cool slightly.

  4. Fold in the egg whites and then add the whipped cream once the mixture is cool.

  5. Pour the dressing over the fruit mixture and gently toss to combine.

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. Pineapple + grapetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together709 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Pecans + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,416 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Pineapple + pecanstop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together294 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Pineapple + vinegartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together411 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

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

Swap the pecans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pineapple, grape, egg, sugar, butter, mustard, vinegar):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Walnutfits better
  3. Chestnutfits better
  4. Pecansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, grape, egg, sugar, butter, mustard, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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