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Asparagus Salad

A salad of asparagus threaded through lemon slices and dressed with French dressing, garnished with parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Asparagus Salad

Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Asparagus Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the lemon into rounds and remove the centers from the slices.

  2. Through each lemon circle, pull three or four stalks of asparagus.

  3. Pour French dressing over the asparagus.

  4. Garnish with a few sprigs of parsley.

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 + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

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

  2. Asparagus + lemontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together704 recipes

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

  3. Asparagus + parsleytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together566 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

German peeled asparagus
Forms the main body of the salad and gives its tender, crisp texture.
French dressing
Adds moisture and a tangy, acidic flavor that seasons the asparagus.

Swap the asparagus

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

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Kalefits better
  4. Asparagusthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, parsley. 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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