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Corn Salad

A mixed salad of boiled corn, onions, mangoes, cabbage, red peppers and horseradish, seasoned with mustard seed, celery seed, turmeric and vinegar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and celery are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,169 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Corn Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the corn for 30 minutes, then remove from heat.

  2. Chop the onions, red mangoes, and cabbage.

  3. Combine all ingredients in a large bowl.

Season and finish

  1. Add salt and vinegar to taste.

  2. Mix in mustard seed, celery seed, turmeric, ground mustard, sweet mangoes, red peppers, and grated horseradish.

  3. Can the mixture if desired.

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. Mustard + celerytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,169 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Mustard + turmerictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,279 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

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

  4. Celery + turmerictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,356 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Mango + turmerictop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together256 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Corn
Provides sweetness and a tender, crisp-soft bite to the relish.
Cabbage
Adds crunch and bulk that holds its texture in the relish.
Sweet mangoes
Contribute fruity sweetness that balances the vinegar and heat.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that brightens the relish and helps preserve it.
Horseradish
Adds sharp, pungent heat that cuts through the sweetness.
Mustard seed
Contributes pungent, sharp flavour as the mixture is seasoned.

Swap the mango

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (corn, onion, cabbage, vinegar, mustard, celery, turmeric):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Lemonfits about as well
  4. Mangothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against corn, onion, cabbage, vinegar, mustard, celery, turmeric. 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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