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Smoked Herring Salad

A salad of lettuce, smoked herring, tomatoes, and dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and tomato 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 ↓

Smoked Herring Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Place the crisp leaves of the lettuce in a salad bowl.

  2. Soak the smoked herrings until tender.

  3. Remove the skin and bones from the herrings, then chop them finely.

Assemble and serve

  1. Mix the chopped herrings with the lettuce.

  2. Pour salad dressing over the mixture and garnish with quartered tomatoes.

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. Lettuce + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,655 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

Lettuce
Forms the crisp base that gives the salad its light, fresh texture.
Smoked herrings
Provide the main smoky, savoury flavour and the salad's protein.
Salad dressing
Adds moisture and fat that coat the leaves and fish, carrying flavour.

The step that matters

Soaking the smoked herrings until tender. Soaking draws out some of the salt and softens the firm fish. Soaking too briefly leaves the herring salty and tough, while the chopped pieces need to be tender enough to mix evenly through the salad.

“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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