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Salad Dressing

A creamy dressing made with eggs, cream, sugar, mustard, pepper, salt, onion, radishes, mint, and vinegar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Salad Dressing

Why it works: Mustard and radish match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 297 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Salad Dressing

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Crush the yolks of the hard boiled eggs into the cream.

  2. Add sugar, mustard, pepper, salt, onion, radishes, mint, and vinegar.

  3. If the cream is not thick enough, crush up potatoes and mix them in.

  4. You can use sour cream instead of sweet cream.

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. Mustard + radishtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together297 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Mustard + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,259 recipes

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

  3. Mustard + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

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

  4. Onion + radishtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together323 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetal (cream, earthy).

  5. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Cream
Forms the body of the dressing and gives it a rich, smooth texture.
Hard boiled eggs
Their yolks are crushed into the cream to thicken and enrich the dressing.
Vinegar
Adds sharp acidity that balances the richness of the cream.
Sugar
Adds sweetness to offset the acidity of the vinegar.
Mustard
Adds sharp, pungent flavour that complements the cream and eggs.

Swap the mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, sugar, mustard, pepper, onion, radish, egg):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Garlicfits better
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sugar, mustard, pepper, onion, radish, egg. 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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