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Shrimp Salad

A chilled shrimp salad with mango, pepper, and mayonnaise dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and mango match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 471 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Shrimp Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the shrimps into small pieces.

  2. Chop one large green mango for each can of shrimps.

Season and toss

  1. Season with coarse sea salt, Folger's Golden Gate Pepper, and a dash of red pepper.

  2. Toss all ingredients together well.

Serve

  1. Serve with mayonnaise dressing.

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. Pepper + mangotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together471 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Shrimp + mangotop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  3. Shrimp + peppertop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,692 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylethanol (rose, floral).

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

What each ingredient does

Shrimps
Provide the main protein and bulk of the salad.
Green mangoes
Add tart, firm pieces that contrast with the sweet-savory shrimp.
Mayonnaise dressing
Adds fat and creaminess that moistens and binds the salad.

Swap the mango

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (shrimp, pepper):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits about as well
  3. Mangothe original
  4. Avocadofits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against shrimp, pepper. 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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