Name: Walxut Salad
Ingredients: half cupful minced water cress; a slice of onion; twelve pickled oysters; vinegar; lemon juice

Why it works: Onion and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 18,226 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Walxut Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Use for this the best grade Grenoble walnuts, if you can get them. Remove the meats as \vhole as possible, put twenty-four of these in a saucepan, cover with stock, a slice of onion and a bay-leaf, and simmer twenty minutes. Take out and cool. Line a salad bowl with heart leaves of lettuce, and sprinkle over them a half cupful minced water cress, and a tablespoon ful chives. Add twelve pickled oysters or oysters or clams par- boiled and marinated with oil and vinegar or lemon juice, and on top of all put the walnuts. Cover with French dressing, chili and serve. Delicious.
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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

140Calories

11 gProtein

3 gFat

19 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Oyster	6 medium (84g)	81
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Water	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.

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. See the original page.

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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.

Onion + vinegartop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together18,226 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).
Onion + lemontop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together15,646 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Vinegar + lemontop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,334 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).
Onion + oystertop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,920 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Oyster + lemontop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,942 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).