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Pork Salad

A salad of cooked pork, celery, cabbage, seasoned with salt and pepper, and mixed with mayonnaise dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16,012 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Pork Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chop the cooked pork into small pieces.

  2. In a large bowl, combine the pork, chopped celery, and chopped cabbage. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

  3. Mix in the mayonnaise dressing until well combined.

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. Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

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

  2. Cabbage + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,081 recipes

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

  3. Celery + cabbagetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,840 recipes

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

  4. Pork + cabbagetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together919 recipes

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

  5. Pork + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,121 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked lean pork
Provides the main protein and bulk of the salad, with its texture set by the chopped pieces.
Celery
Adds crisp texture and a fresh, mild crunch that contrasts with the soft pork.
Cabbage
Adds crunch and body, holding its texture against the creamy dressing.
Mayonnaise dressing
Adds fat and moisture, binding the pieces together and making the salad creamy.

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, cabbage, pepper):

  1. Thymefits about as well
  2. Marjoramfits about as well
  3. Sagefits about as well
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, cabbage, 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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