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Pineapple Salad

A salad of lettuce, pineapple, tomato, dressing, and nuts.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and lettuce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,655 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Pineapple Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place a lettuce leaf on a plate.

  2. Layer a slice of pineapple on the lettuce.

  3. Add a slice of tomato on top of the pineapple.

  4. Top with another slice of pineapple.

  5. Drizzle with cooked or mayonnaise dressing.

  6. Sprinkle with chopped nut meats.

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. Tomato + lettucetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Pineapple + lettucetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together271 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Pineapple + tomatotop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together306 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Tomato + meattop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,438 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Lettuce + meattop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together579 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Pineapple
Adds sweetness and acidity that balance the savory tomato and dressing.
Tomato
Adds juiciness and a mild acidity between the pineapple slices.
Cooked or mayonnaise dressing
Adds fat and creaminess that moistens the fruit and vegetables.

Swap the pineapple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, lettuce, meat):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, lettuce, meat. 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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