Name: Thousand Island Salad Dressing
Ingredients: 1 cup of mayonnaise dressing; 1 teaspoonful of pimentos chopped fine; 1 teaspoonful of chopped 1 teaspoonful of tarragon vinegar; 1 teaspoonful of tarragon vinegar

Why it works: Tarragon and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,547 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Thousand Island Salad Dressing

Ingredients

1 cup of mayonnaise dressing
1 teaspoonful of pimentos chopped fine
1 teaspoonful of chopped 1 teaspoonful of tarragon vinegar
1 teaspoonful of tarragon vinegar

Directions

Beat mayonnaise with chili sauce.
Add paprika, salt, tarragon vinegar, pimentos, and green peppers.
Beat until well blended.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

83Calories

6 gProtein

5 gFat

1 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 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
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Tarragon	1 tsp dried (0.5g)	2
Pimento	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 Norton, Caroline Trask. 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.

Tarragon + vinegartop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,547 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Mayonnaise: Forms the creamy base, giving richness and a smooth body to the dressing.
Tarragon vinegar: Adds acidity that brightens the dressing and balances its richness.
Pimentos: Add mild sweet pepper flavor and a red flecked color.

“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.