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Baked Apple Salad

A baked apple dish served with nuts, salad dressing, and whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Nuts and cream work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 886 recipes. Both carry 2-nonanone, which smells fruity, floral. The science ↓

Baked Apple Salad

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Bake the apples

  1. Bake Northern Spy apples at 350°F (175°C) until thoroughly done.

  2. Remove the skin from the baked apples.

Assemble and serve

  1. Stuff the centers of the apples with nuts.

  2. Serve the stuffed apples with salad dressing and 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. Nuts + creamtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together886 recipes

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

  2. Apple + nutstop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together237 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Apple + creamtop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,089 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Northern spy apples
Provide the main body of the dish, softening and sweetening as they bake.
Nuts
Add crunch and contrast to the soft baked apple.
Salad dressing
Adds tang and moisture to the stuffed apples.
Whipped cream
Adds a cool, rich, creamy layer that softens the flavours.

The step that matters

Bake until thoroughly done. The apples must be fully softened through so they are tender and easy to stuff. Underbaked apples stay firm and hold their starch and acidity, so the texture and sweetness of the dish will be off.

Swap the apple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Raisinfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against 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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