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Canape Belmont

Chicken salad on toast topped with olives and served on lettuce leaves.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,539 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Canape Belmont

Ingredients

Directions

Make the chicken salad

  1. Chop the chicken and celery finely.

  2. Season the mixture with salt, pepper, and vinegar.

  3. Let the mixture stand for a while.

  4. Squeeze the mixture dry.

  5. Add the mayonnaise dressing and mix the mixture well.

Assemble and serve

  1. Slice the tomatoes into 1/8-inch thick pieces.

  2. Trim the toast to the same size.

  3. Lay the tomato slices on the toast.

  4. Spread the chicken mixture over the tomato slices.

  5. Decorate the toast with stuffed olives in the center.

  6. Serve the assembled canapés on crisp lettuce leaves.

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. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Celery + tomatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,377 recipes

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

  4. Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

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

  5. Olive + lettucetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

What each ingredient does

White meat of chicken
Forms the main body of the salad, providing protein and bulk.
Mayonnaise dressing
Adds moisture and richness, binding the chicken and celery together.
Fresh tomatoes
Add juiciness and acidity beneath the chicken mixture on the toast.
Celery
Adds crisp texture and a mild, fresh flavor to the salad.

The step that matters

Squeeze the mixture dry. Excess liquid from the chicken and celery would make the salad watery and soak the toast. Removing it before adding the mayonnaise keeps the dressing thick and the canapés crisp.

Swap the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, chicken, celery, pepper, vinegar, tomato, olive):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Potatofits about as well
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, chicken, celery, pepper, vinegar, tomato, olive. 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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