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Cherry Deceit Salad

A salad of white California cherries, filbert nuts, lettuce, French dressing, and whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Filbert and nuts work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 38 recipes. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Cherry Deceit Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove seeds from the cherries and insert a filbert nut into each one.

  2. Place lettuce leaves on salad plates and pile the cherries on top.

Dress and serve

  1. Pour a well-seasoned French dressing mixed with some of the cherry juice over the cherries.

  2. Top with a generous amount of stiffly whipped cream.

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.

Explore the science

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. Filbert + nutstop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together38 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Nuts + lettucetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together174 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  3. Filbert + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  4. Nuts + creamtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together886 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  5. Lettuce + creamtop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,121 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

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

What each ingredient does

White california cherries
Provide the main fruit, sweetness and juice that flavours the dressing.
Filbert nuts
Add crunch and a nutty flavour contrasting with the soft cherries.
French dressing
Adds acidity and seasoning that balance the sweetness of the cherries.
Whipped cream
Adds richness and a light, airy texture on top of the salad.

Swap the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (filbert, nuts, cream):

  1. Spinachfits about as well
  2. Potatofits about as well
  3. Lettucethe original
  4. Capsicumfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against filbert, nuts, cream. 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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