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Grape Fruit Salad

A salad of grapefruit, cherries, almonds, and green jelly flavored with crème de menthe.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Grapefruit and almond share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Grape Fruit Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the partitions from the grapefruit and pull it into pieces.

  2. Mix the grapefruit with the blanched, dried almonds and the cherries.

  3. Do not mix with the salad until ready to serve.

Serve

  1. Serve in a border of chopped green jelly, flavored with crème de menthe, or mold the jelly in a border mold, including some of the green cherries.

  2. Place the salad in the center.

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. Grapefruit + almondtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Grapefruit
Provides the main body and tart, fresh citrus flavor of the salad.
Cherries
Add sweetness and a creme de menthe aroma that flavors the salad.
Blanched, dried almonds
Add crunch and a nutty texture against the soft fruit.
Green jelly
Sets into a firm border that holds and frames the salad when served.

The step that matters

Do not mix with the salad until ready to serve.. Grapefruit and cherries release juice over time, which makes the salad watery and can soften the almonds. Holding the mixing until serving keeps the texture crisp.

“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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