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Nut, Celery and Cabbage Salad

A salad of celery, cabbage, and pecan pieces dressed with boiled dressing or mayonnaise.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and cabbage are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,840 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Nut, Celery and Cabbage Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, combine the celery, cabbage, and pecans.

  2. Moisten the mixture with boiled dressing or mayonnaise.

  3. Serve in a bowl made from a small white cabbage head.

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 + cabbagetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,840 recipes

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

  2. Celery + meattop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,880 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Cabbage + meattop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together292 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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 a fresh, mild vegetal crunch to the salad.
Cabbage
Provides crisp, watery bulk that gives the salad its body and crunch.
Pecans
Add rich fattiness and a toasty, crunchy texture that contrasts the vegetables.
Boiled dressing or mayonnaise
Adds moisture and fat that coats the vegetables and nuts, binding the salad together.

Swap the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (celery, meat):

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against celery, meat. 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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