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Avocado Served in Skin

A ripe avocado served whole with dressings or fillings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Avocado and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,385 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Avocado Served in Skin

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the avocado in half and remove the seed.

  2. Serve with one of the dressings: sugar, salt and vinegar, tomato ketchup, Durkee’s salad dressing, or French dressing.

  3. Alternatively, fill the cavity with sliced celery and sliced walnuts, then cover with mayonnaise.

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. Avocado + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,385 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Tomato + celerytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,377 recipes

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

  3. Avocado + walnuttop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together57 recipes

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

  4. Celery + walnuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together852 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  5. Sugar + ketchuptop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together260 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Avocado
Provides the rich, creamy flesh that forms the body of the dish.
Mayonnaise
Adds fat and creaminess when used to cover the filled avocado.
Walnuts
Add a crunchy texture against the soft avocado.

Swap the avocado

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, vinegar, tomato, ketchup, celery, walnut):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits about as well
  3. Avocadothe original
  4. Cherryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, vinegar, tomato, ketchup, celery, walnut. 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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