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Hickory Nut Salad

A salad of grapes, hickory nuts, cottage cheese, and optional lemon juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Olive M. Hulse · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Grape and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,412 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Hickory Nut Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and shape

  1. Skin and seed one pound of grapes.

  2. Mix the grapes with one cupful of hickory nuts and a half pound of cottage cheese, forming into balls.

Serve

  1. Lay the balls on a platter garnished with lettuce, and surround with grapes.

  2. Mix the juice of the grapes with fruit dressing, using the juice of only one lemon if the grapes are sour.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

172Calories
12 gProtein
5 gFat
23 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Cottage Cheese1/2 cup (113g) 2%98
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Hickory Nutnot 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 Olive M. Hulse. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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. Grape + lemontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,412 recipes

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

  2. Grape + cottage cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together46 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  3. Cottage cheese + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together145 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  4. Grape + nutstop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together224 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Nuts + cottage cheesetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

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

What each ingredient does

Cottage cheese
Binds the grapes and nuts together so they hold their shape as balls.
Hickory nuts
Add crunch and a rich, buttery flavor that contrasts with the soft cheese.
Grapes
Add sweetness and moisture, and their juice is used in the dressing.
Lemon
Adds acidity to balance sweet grapes, used only if the grapes are sour.

Swap the nuts

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

  1. Walnutfits better
  2. Almondfits better
  3. Beansfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against grape, cottage cheese, lemon. 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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