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Thousand Island Dressing

A creamy salad dressing made with chili sauce, whipped cream, mayonnaise, vinegar, lemon juice, walnut catsup, salt, mango, pickled beets, eggs, and onion.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Tarragon and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,137 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Thousand Island Dressing

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, mix the chili sauce, whipped cream, mayonnaise, tarragon vinegar, lemon juice, walnut catsup, and coarse sea salt until well combined.

  2. In another bowl, combine the chopped mango, pickled beets, and pepper.

  3. Add the second mixture to the first and stir well.

  4. Finally, fold in the chopped hard boiled eggs and Spanish onion.

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.

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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. Tarragon + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Tarragon + walnuttop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together118 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Tarragon + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Mango + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together471 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Mayonnaise
Provides the creamy base and fat that carries the other flavours.
Chili sauce
Supplies the tomato-based sweetness, acidity and colour of the dressing.
Whipped cream
Adds a lighter, airier texture and softens the dressing's body.
Hard boiled eggs
Add body and a soft, rich texture throughout the dressing.
Tarragon vinegar
Adds sharp acidity and a faint aniseed aroma that brightens the dressing.

Swap the mango

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, cream, tarragon, vinegar, lemon, walnut, pepper):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Mangothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, cream, tarragon, vinegar, lemon, walnut, pepper. 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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