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Frozen Salad

A chilled salad of ricotta cheese, mayonnaise, whipping cream, pineapple, cherries, and olives, served frozen.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,802 recipes. Both carry methyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells apple, fatty. The science ↓

Frozen Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. Put the cheese through a ricer.

  2. Mix the cheese with mayonnaise.

  3. Add the stiffly whipped cream and mix well.

  4. Fold in the finely cut pineapple, cherries, and olives.

Freeze and serve

  1. Pack the mixture into a mold and freeze in ice and salt for three hours.

  2. Slice and serve on crisp lettuce with a small amount of mayonnaise.

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. Cheese + olivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,802 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  2. Pineapple + olivetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together660 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Cheese + pineappletop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together128 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Cheese + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Cream + pineappletop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,574 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Blue label cheese
Provides the main body and rich flavor of the salad.
Mayonnaise
Adds moisture and richness, binding the cheese into a smooth mixture.
Whipping cream
Adds airy volume and a creamy texture once frozen.
Pineapple
Contributes sweetness and fruity moisture that lightens the richness.

The step that matters

Folding in the whipped cream. Whipped cream traps air that gives the frozen salad its light texture. Stirring it too vigorously or letting it deflate before folding leads to a dense, heavy result.

Swap the pineapple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cheese, cream, olive):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Strawberryfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, cream, 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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