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Mixed Vegetable Salad, Swedish Style

A salad of cooked young carrots, beets, and potatoes mixed with smoked beef tongue, pickled herring, apple, and herbs, dressed with oil, vinegar, and mustard.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,053 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Mixed Vegetable Salad, Swedish Style

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the cooked young carrots, beets, and potatoes into small pieces using a knife.

  2. In a bowl, combine the cut vegetables with smoked beef tongue, pickled herring, and sliced apple.

  3. Season the mixture with salt, pepper, oil, and vinegar.

  4. Add finely chopped parsley, chervil, and a few spoonfuls of mustard dressing.

Serve

  1. Mix everything well and arrange it in a salad bowl.

  2. Garnish with stone olives and boned anchovies.

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. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

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

  2. Parsley + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together774 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  4. Carrot + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,107 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Carrot + cherviltop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together355 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked young carrots, beets, and potatoes
Form the bulk of the salad and provide sweetness and soft texture.
Pickled herring
Adds salty, sharp flavour and a tender, fatty bite.
Smoked beef-tongue
Contributes smoky, savoury flavour and a firm, meaty texture.
Mustard dressing
Adds sharpness and moisture that bind the salad together.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, potato, beef, pepper, vinegar, parsley, chervil):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, potato, beef, pepper, vinegar, parsley, chervil. 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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