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Salads of Fruits

A fruit salad containing celery, bananas, apples, oranges, raisins, walnuts, and mayonnaise dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Ramblers' club, Minneapolis. [from old catalog] · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Banana and apple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 435 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Salads of Fruits

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the tomatoes

  1. Peel medium-sized tomatoes by first plunging them in boiling water.

  2. Remove a thin slice from the stem end of each tomato, and remove seeds and some of the pulp.

  3. Sprinkle the inside with salt, invert, and let stand for an hour.

Make the filling

  1. Combine 2 cups celery, 2 oranges chopped into bits, and 1 cup of seeded raisins washed and halved.

  2. Add 1 cup grated apple to 1 cup mayonnaise and mix with celery and raisins.

  3. Grate some orange rind and sprinkle over all, also a little bit of lemon juice.

  4. Fill tomatoes with equal portions of celery and walnuts, cut in pieces and mix with mayonnaise dressing.

Serve

  1. Arrange 3 bananas, 1 head celery, 1 apple, 1 cup walnuts, and 18 raisins on lettuce leaves.

  2. Serve on lettuce leaves and garnish with dressing or with a shrimp, or with a pimola.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

456Calories
12 gProtein
9 gFat
90 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Banana1 medium (118g)105
Apple1 medium (182g)95
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Orange1 medium (131g)62
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
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.

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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. Banana + appletop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together435 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Celery + tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,377 recipes

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

  3. Celery + walnuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together852 recipes

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

  4. Apple + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Banana + orangetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,118 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Mayonnaise
Binds the celery, fruit and walnuts into a creamy dressing that keeps the salad moist.
Walnuts
Add crunch and a rich, slightly bitter contrast to the soft fruit and celery.
Raisins
Add concentrated sweetness and chewy texture to the filling.
Bananas
Add natural sweetness and a soft, creamy texture to the salad.
Celery
Provides a crisp, crunchy texture that contrasts with the soft fruit.

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (celery, walnut, banana, apple, tomato, orange):

  1. Cranberryfits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

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

“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.

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