Name: Lydia's Cranberry Salad
Prep time: 10 min
Yield: 8 to 12 servings
Ingredients: 1 pound fresh cranberries; 1 1/2 cups white sugar; 2 pounds seedless red grapes, quartered; 1 (16 ounce) package miniature marshmallows; 2 cups chopped pecans; 1 (12 ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed

Lydia's Cranberry Salad

"This has always been a holiday favorite; it's even good for breakfast the next day. It's got a little of everything - cranberries, grapes, nuts, and miniature marshmallows - all held together with whipped topping. This keeps several days. In the beginning I was always told I HAD to use fresh whipped cream, but in later years my mother-in -law admitted to using nondairy whipped topping herself. A memory of my beloved mother-in-law, and something that makes Christmas...CHRISTMAS!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients

Why it works: Grape and pecans work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 552 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Lydia's Cranberry Salad

8 to 12 servings

Prep10 min

Ingredients

1 pound fresh cranberries
1 1/2 cups white sugar
2 pounds seedless red grapes, quartered
1 (16 ounce) package miniature marshmallows
2 cups chopped pecans
1 (12 ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

307Calories

3 gProtein

21 gFat

32 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 5 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Pecans	1 oz (28g / ~19 halves)	196
Red Grape	1/2 cup (76g)	62
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Marshmallow	not in our table	0
Topping	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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.

Grape + pecanstop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together552 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
Sugar + grapetop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together7,490 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Sugar + pecanstop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,962 recipes

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

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

Swap the pecans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, grape):

Almondfits better
Walnutfits better
Chestnutfits better
Pecansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, grape. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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