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Cheese and Olive Salad

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Ladies' Benevolent Society, First Congregational Church (Fall River, Mass .). Ladies' Benevolent Society, Mass.) First Congregational Church (Fall River · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Walnut and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 852 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Cheese and Olive Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix two Neufchatel cheeses, one cup Young America cheese and six stoned and finely chopped olives. Season with salt and cayenne, moisten with cream, press and cut in squares. Serve on crisp lettuce leaves, and marinate with French dressing.

  2. F&UIT SALAD

  3. One cup white grapes, take off skin, cut in quarters, take out seeds, one cup of orange, remove skin and pulp, and cut in small pieces, one cup of walnuts cut in small pieces, three cups celery cut the size of ordinary salad, drain juice of sour grapes and oranges, mix all together with cream dressing.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

275Calories
10 gProtein
13 gFat
34 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Cayenne1 tsp (1.8g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saladnot in our table0

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

By Ladies' Benevolent Society, First Congregational Church (Fall River, Mass .). Ladies' Benevolent Society, Mass.) First Congregational Church (Fall River. 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.

  1. Walnut + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together852 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Grape + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,771 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Grape + walnuttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,427 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  4. Orange + celerytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together452 recipes

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

  5. Orange + walnuttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

Swap the orange

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

  1. Figfits better
  2. Applefits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Orangethe original

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

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