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Alsatian Salad

A salad of lettuce, sliced frankfurter sausages, cold potatoes, onion, pickles, and French dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Alsatian Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Arrange a bed of lettuce on a serving plate.

  2. Cook the frankfurter sausages in boiling water for a few minutes.

  3. Chill the sausages and slice them thinly.

  4. Slice the cold potatoes, white onion, and pickles.

Assemble and serve

  1. Gently mix the sliced ingredients with the French dressing.

  2. Serve the mixture on the bed of lettuce.

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. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Lettuce + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together322 recipes

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

  3. Lettuce + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,562 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Frankfurter sausages
Provide the main protein and savory body of the salad.
Cold potatoes
Add starchy bulk and hold their shape when sliced and dressed.
French dressing
Adds moisture and acidity that coat the sliced ingredients.
Pickles
Contribute acidity and a sharp, tangy flavor.

Swap the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, onion):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Okrafits better
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, onion. 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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