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Grape Salad

A salad of seedless Malaga grapes stuffed with blanched filbert nuts, served on lettuce with a mayonnaise and whipped cream dressing, garnished with orange.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Grape and orange are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,771 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Grape Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the seeds from the Malaga grapes.

  2. Stuff each grape with a blanched filbert nut.

Assemble and serve

  1. Serve the stuffed grapes on a bed of lettuce.

  2. Cover the salad with a mixture of mayonnaise and whipped cream.

  3. Garnish with sections of orange.

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. Grape + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,771 recipes

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

  2. Filbert + nutstop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together38 recipes

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

  3. Nuts + lettucetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together174 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  4. Lettuce + orangetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together373 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Grape + lettucetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together349 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Malaga grapes
Provide the sweet, juicy base that the stuffing sits inside.
Filbert nuts
Add a crunchy, nutty texture contrast to the soft grape.
Mayonnaise
Adds richness and a creamy, tangy coating over the salad.
Whipped cream
Lightens the mayonnaise dressing, giving it a softer, airier texture.

Swap the filbert

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (grape, nuts, lettuce, cream, orange):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Pistachiofits better
  3. Walnutfits better
  4. Filbertthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against grape, nuts, lettuce, cream, orange. 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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