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Tomato and Cucumber Salad

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Why it works: Potato and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Tomato and Cucumber Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Take an equal amount of sliced tomatoes, peeled and sliced cucumbers, add a little onion juice. Pour over mayonnaise dressing and mix. Serve very cold.

  2. Mrs. T. F. Quinby.

  3. SCOTCH SALAD. 1 cup English walnuts, § cup celery, 6 large olives. Cut all with a knife, the celery very fine. Make a dressing of: 1 tbs. butter, 1 tbs. flour, 1 cup hot milk, 1 cup cheese cut fine, § tsp. chopped parsley, § tsp. salt, dash of paprica. Mix well and cook until cheese is dissolved, then pour over mixture; serve on lettuce leaves with resetted radishes.

  4. HOT POTATO SALAD. Boil 12 medium sized potatoes in jackets, pare and' slice thin; slice thin 1 large or 2 small onions; slice thin 1 cu- cumber; slice thin 3 boiled eggs; mix. Season to taste. Fry J lb. bacon cut in small squares, crisp. Mix bacon with above. Pour 2-3 cup vinegar into bacon fat; heat and pour over above mixture just before serving.

  5. Mrs. R. W. Cranston.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

621Calories
30 gProtein
29 gFat
61 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 12 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Cheese1 oz (28g) cheddar113
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Bacon1 slice cooked (8g)43
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Olive1 large (4g)4
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Scotchnot in our table0
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 Ramblers' club, Minneapolis. [from old catalog]. 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.

Explore the science

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. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Walnut + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,087 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Olive + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,458 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Olive + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Milk + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

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

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, cheese, vinegar, olive, potato, onion, egg):

  1. Sesamefits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Peanutfits better
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, cheese, vinegar, olive, potato, onion, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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