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German Salad

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,173 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

German Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chop up all the boiled vegetables: carrots, turnips, cabbage, cauliflower, potatoes, French beans, Brussels sprouts, celery, raw onion, and raw apple.

  2. Mix the chopped vegetables with sauerkraut, oil, and vinegar to taste.

  3. Cut boiled beetroot into triangles and arrange them around the edge of the salad bowl.

  4. Cut a star from a slice of beetroot and place it in the center of the bowl.

  5. Sprinkle chopped blanched parsley over the mixed vegetables.

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. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Turnip + cauliflowertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together286 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Cabbage + cauliflowertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together305 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Turnip + cabbagetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together897 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the brussels sprouts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, turnip, cabbage, cauliflower, potato, beans, celery):

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Broccolifits better
  3. Beetrootfits better
  4. Brussels sproutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, turnip, cabbage, cauliflower, potato, beans, celery. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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