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Delicious Salad

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Grape and pineapple match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 709 recipes. Both carry 1-hexanal, which smells fruit. The science ↓

Delicious Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Drain all juice from the pineapple and place each slice on crisp lettuce.

  2. Cut grapes in half, removing seeds, and cut marshmallows into 4 pieces.

  3. Use only tender celery, cut into small pieces.

  4. Mix grapes, marshmallows, and celery with nuts.

  5. Place a portion of the mixture on each slice of pineapple.

  6. For the dressing, combine sugar, salt, and flour; stir into pineapple juice until smooth.

  7. Add the beaten egg, lemon juice, and remaining pineapple juice.

  8. Cook in a double boiler until thick.

  9. When cool, beat in whipped cream until smooth.

  10. Prepare salad ingredients but do not mix or add dressing until ready to serve.

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. Grape + pineappletop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together709 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  2. Celery + lettucetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,033 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  4. Lettuce + pineappletop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together271 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Lettuce + flourtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,236 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (grape, lettuce, pineapple, egg, flour, cream, sugar):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against grape, lettuce, pineapple, egg, flour, cream, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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