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Suggestions for Fruit Salads

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and pear match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 649 recipes mention both. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, fruity. The science ↓

Suggestions for Fruit Salads

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Arrange crisp lettuce leaves in a salad bowl.

  2. Top with thinly sliced apples and drizzle with French dressing.

  3. Alternatively, use stone cherries, sliced oranges, or a combination of orange and sliced pineapple, peaches, or pears with French dressing.

  4. For another option, toss diced pineapple and raspberries together with mayonnaise.

  5. Cut up green gages and bananas, then dress with a little sugar and 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Apple + peartop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together649 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  2. Peach + peartop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together114 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Pineapple + bananatop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together733 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  4. Pear + bananatop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together87 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Pineapple + peartop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together169 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, orange, pineapple, peach, pear, banana, sugar):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Sweet potatobetter flavor fit
  3. Beetrootabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, orange, pineapple, peach, pear, banana, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

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