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Salade Jardiniere

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Turnip and parsnip match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 590 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Salade Jardiniere

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Slice the root vegetables and boil them in salted water until tender.

  2. Use a small vegetable cutter to stamp the boiled vegetables into star or flower shapes.

  3. Stamp cooked beets into star shapes and keep them in vinegar separately.

  4. Boil asparagus heads, green peas, and cut string beans into diamond shapes.

  5. Mix all vegetables (except beets and some peas or asparagus) with oil and vinegar to moisten.

  6. Transfer the mixture between bowls a few times to combine.

  7. Pile the mixture in the center of a serving dish and pour thin mayonnaise over it.

  8. Scatter the star-shaped beets and green peas on top.

  9. Decorate the edge of the dish with blocks of amber jelly, lettuce leaves, cress, and flowers.

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. Turnip + parsniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together590 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Carrot + parsniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,097 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  4. Turnip + carrottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Rutabaga + parsniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together74 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the rutabaga

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (turnip, carrot, parsnip, celery, asparagus, peas, beans):

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Beetrootfits better
  3. Lettucefits better
  4. Rutabagathe original

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

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