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Grape Fruit and Tomato Salad

A salad of cubed grapefruit and diced tomatoes dressed with mayonnaise and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,398 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Grape Fruit and Tomato Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Separate the grapefruit and remove all the white membrane, then cut into cubes.

  2. Peel the tomatoes without scalding, quarter them, and cut into eighths.

  3. Chill the grapefruit and tomatoes in the refrigerator for an hour.

Assemble and serve

  1. Combine the grapefruit and tomatoes just before serving, cover with mayonnaise, and sprinkle with parsley.

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. Tomato + parsleytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,398 recipes

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

  2. Grapefruit + parsleytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together28 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Grapefruit + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together36 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Grapefruit
Provides juicy, tart citrus pieces that brighten the salad's flavor.
Tomatoes
Adds juiciness and a mild acidity that balances the rich dressing.
Mayonnaise dressing
Adds fat and creaminess that coats the fruit and vegetable pieces.

Swap the grapefruit

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, parsley):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Grapefruitthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, parsley. 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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