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Salad Deessing Foe Cabbage Salad

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Why it works: Onion and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 68,474 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Salad Deessing Foe Cabbage Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. SOUE CEEAM DEESSING FOE BOILED BEETS. Half a cup thick, sour cream*; 1 level tablespoon of flour; a little weak vinegar. Boil until thickened and pour over diced and seasoned beets. -■ Mrs. C. A. Martin.

  2. TOMATO SAUCE. Melt 1 tablespoon of butter, add 1 tablespoon of flour as for white sauce and i cup of either canned or fresh tomatoes. Salt and pepper. Boil until thick like a white sauce. JIrs. J. L. Stone.

  3. Soups will have a richer taste if part of the meat is browned in the spider, either before boiling or later, by using some of the fat from the kettle, and then returning all to the kettle again.

  4. Mrs. H. L. Conlee.

  5. THE USEFUL COOK BOOK 91

  6. SOUP. BOUILLON.

  7. Select 4 lbs. of beef, lean and juicy, from the middle of the round. Wipe it and cut in small pieces, put part of it in a kettle with marrow and bone, add 2 quarts of cold water, 1 tablespoon of salt, 1 teaspoon of mixed whole spices, bit of bay-leaf. Brown remainder of meat in hot fat with 1 small onion; then put in kettle and let oome slowly to a boil, and cook at a gentle simmer until reduced to 3 pints. Strain, when cold remove fat, add salt and pepper, heat to boiling point, strain again into hot cups and serve at once. Mrs. C. A. Maetin.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

607Calories
14 gProtein
13 gFat
106 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 7 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Soupnot 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 Ithaca (N.Y.) First Baptist Church. Ladies Union. 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. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  2. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Butter + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Flour + oniontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together32,460 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Flour + peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together50,459 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, flour, pepper):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, flour, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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