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Seasonable Salads and Salad Dressings

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 26 ingredients
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Why it works: Chive and chervil match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 370 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Seasonable Salads and Salad Dressings

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Select young and perfectly fresh vegetables.

  2. Wash and prepare each vegetable as needed.

  3. Combine the vegetables in a large bowl.

  4. Toss gently to mix the ingredients evenly.

  5. Serve immediately or chill before serving.

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.

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. Chive + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together370 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Artichoke + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Beetroot + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together126 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Artichoke + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together59 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Artichoke + beetroottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together50 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the basil

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (asparagus, artichoke, beetroot, celery, chive, chervil, cucumber):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Basilthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against asparagus, artichoke, beetroot, celery, chive, chervil, cucumber. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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