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Grape Salad

A salad of halved grapes and grapefruit pulp mixed with green mayonnaise, served on lettuce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Grapefruit and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Grape Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the fruit

  1. Halve the grapes and remove the seeds.

  2. Cut the grapefruit into halves and scoop out the pulp in good-sized pieces, removing the seeds.

Assemble and serve

  1. Mix the grapes and grapefruit pulp with green mayonnaise.

  2. Serve the mixture on a bed of lettuce, optionally with game or broiled chicken.

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. Grapefruit + lettucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together118 recipes

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

  2. Grape + grapefruittop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together79 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-p-menthene-8-thiol (grapefruit).

  3. Grape + lettucetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together349 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

White grapes
Provide sweetness and juicy texture as the main body of the salad.
Shaddocks (grapefruit) pulp
Adds tart acidity and juicy bite that balances the sweetness of the grapes.
Green mayonnaise
Adds richness and fat that binds the fruit into a creamy dressing.

Swap the grape

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (grapefruit, lettuce):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against grapefruit, lettuce. 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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