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A Fruit Salad Served in Cantaloupe

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Why it works: Cream and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 30% of all ingredient pairs, and 15,640 recipes mention both. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

A Fruit Salad Served in Cantaloupe

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Equal parts of the cantaloupe (cut in dice), oranges and apples cut in small pieces, one-half the amount of English walnuts cut in small pieces. Mix

  2. SALADS. 209

  3. with mayonnaise which is one-half whipped cream. Select small cantaloupes of uniform size, cut off the top and save to use for a cover. A bow of narrow ribbon may be drawn through the top to form a handle.) Carefully remove the pulp from the salad, drain and fill just before serving. Surround each one by lettuce leaves.

  4. OTHER FRUIT SALADS (No. i).

  5. Equal parts of apple, celery and nuts, mixed with mayonnaise or cooked dressing, served on lettuce or in cups made from red apples, oranges or lemons.

  6. FRUIT SALAD (No. 2).

  7. Mix equal parts of bananas, oranges, white grapes and pecan nuts, cut in small pieces. Add a little lemon juice and mix with mayonnaise which has a part of whipped cream with it. Serve on lettuce with some of the dressing on top. Garnish with slices of orange and nuts.

  8. FRUIT SALAD (No. 3).

  9. Remove the stone from dates, halve them and press into the hole pieces of walnuts. Pour over a French or wine dressing. Serve on shredded lettuce.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cream + lemontop 30% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together15,640 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Cream and lemon share little aroma chemistry, yet 15,640 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

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