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Pork or Veal Salad

A salad of chopped celery and cold roast pork or veal, dressed with a chosen salad dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and pork are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,572 recipes. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

Pork or Veal Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the chopped celery with the cold roast pork or veal.

  2. Add your preferred salad dressing and combine well.

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. Celery + porktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,572 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

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

What each ingredient does

Celery
Adds crisp texture and fresh, mild flavor to the salad.
Cold roast pork or veal
Provides the main protein and substance of the salad.

“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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