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Chicken Salad

Why it works: Cabbage and celery are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,840 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Chicken Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mrs. C. A. Judson.

  2. Boil a chicken tilltender ; remove the bones and skin; if wanted extra nice use only the white meat ; cut in coarse dice, and season with salt and pepper ; chop in I inch pieces the tender parts of celery : mix g as much celery with the chicken ; mix with mayon-

  3. SALADS. 131

  4. naise dressing, arrange nicely on a dish, put some dressing over it; garnish with celery tops. Do not mix till wanted. The dressing may be thinned with whipped cream.

  5. A small proportion of pecan nuts is liked by many.

  6. COLD SLAW, NO. L

  7. Miss Rose Tipping.

  8. Slice fine enough cabbage to till an ordinary salad bowl : mix 2 tablespoons sugar with butter the size of ^ an egg, 2 tablespoons flour and ] cup weak vinegar ; l)ring to the boil, cook a moment, then take off, stir in 2 well beaten eggs, and salt and pepper to taste. Salt the cabbage also. Pour the dressing over the slaw 1 hour before serving, cover and let stand till wanted.

  9. COLD SLAW, NO. 2.

  10. 1 pint chopped cabbage, 1 cup celery chopped, and h cup grated horseradish. Season with salt. Stir a good mayonnaise or lettuce dressing into the mixture a few moments before serving.

  11. COLD SLAW, NO. 3.

  12. Mrs. Donna O'Reilly.

  13. Chop 1 small head cabbage fine ; sprinkle with 1 teaspoon salt, I tablespoon sugar and a dash of white pepper ; mash until moist. Then put ] cup vinegar with \ cup water and a bit of butter in a saucepan and let come to a boil ; thicken with 1 teaspoon corn- starch, let boil up, stir it into the cabbage, and set the slaw on the ice to get cold.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

776Calories
25 gProtein
19 gFat
127 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Cabbage1 cup shredded (89g)22
Celery1 stalk (40g)6
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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

By Martin, Maria Ewing, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp. 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. Cabbage + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,840 recipes

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

  2. Celery + corntop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together920 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  3. Cabbage + corntop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together234 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Flour + corntop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,165 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and butter 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 white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, flour, cabbage, celery, corn, egg, butter):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Tarragonfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

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

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