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Hyden Salad

A fermented cabbage and tomato salad with spices and oil.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,189 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Hyden Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the vegetables

  1. Sprinkle salt over the chopped green tomatoes and let them stand for a while.

  2. Strain the juice from the tomatoes and discard it.

  3. Combine the cabbage, green tomatoes, green peppers, and onions in a large bowl.

Season and cook

  1. Add the mixed mustard, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, mace, turmeric, celery seed, and sugar to the bowl. Mix all ingredients well.

  2. Cover the mixture with good vinegar.

  3. Boil slowly until done.

  4. For added flavor, mix in 1 cup of salad oil.

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. Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Ginger + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,380 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Ginger + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,038 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Cabbage + mustardtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,645 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

What each ingredient does

Cabbage
Forms the bulk of the salad and gives it a crisp, crunchy texture.
Green tomatoes
Adds tart acidity and body; salting and draining them removes excess moisture.
Sugar
Adds sweetness that balances the sharp vinegar and tomato tartness.
Good vinegar
Provides acidity that preserves the salad and gives it its tangy flavor.
Onions
Contributes pungent aroma and savory flavor to the salad.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cabbage, pepper, onion, mustard, ginger, cinnamon, clove):

  1. Horseradishfits better
  2. Broccolifits better
  3. Lettucefits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cabbage, pepper, onion, mustard, ginger, cinnamon, clove. 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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