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Tomato Salad with Cucumbees

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 15,539 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Tomato Salad with Cucumbees

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Peel and slice the tomatoes, then season with coarse sea salt and black pepper.

  2. Slice the cucumbers, sprinkle with coarse sea salt, and set aside for 20 minutes.

  3. Press out the water from the cucumbers and combine them with the tomatoes in a salad bowl.

  4. Add finely chopped parsley, olive oil, and vinegar, then mix gently without breaking the tomatoes.

  5. For a variation, add a light mayonnaise sauce with a little mustard and cream, and garnish with lettuce hearts.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Cucumber + mustardtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,281 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Tomato + cucumbertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,405 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Parsley + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together9,649 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the mustard

The recipe marks mustard as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, cucumber, pepper, parsley, olive, vinegar, cream):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Lettucebetter flavor fit
  3. Eggplantbetter flavor fit
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, cucumber, pepper, parsley, olive, vinegar, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

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