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Lobster, Chicken or Veal Salad

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Why it works: Celery and mustard are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,169 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Lobster, Chicken or Veal Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chop the cooked chicken finely and season with salt and pepper.

  2. Add the chopped celery, lobster, beetroot, and egg white.

  3. In a bowl, crush the egg yolk with salt, pepper, mustard, brown sugar, and olive oil or melted butter.

  4. Mix in the vinegar and sour or sweet cream until well combined.

  5. Combine the dressing with the chicken mixture and mix well.

  6. Garnish with parsley or salad greens before serving.

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. Celery + mustardtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,169 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Beetroot + mustardtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together484 recipes

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

  3. Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

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

  4. Celery + beetroottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together652 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Pepper + mustardtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the beetroot

The recipe marks beetroot as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, pepper, celery, lobster, egg, mustard, sugar):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Lettucebetter flavor fit
  3. Horseradishbetter flavor fit
  4. Beetrootthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, pepper, celery, lobster, egg, mustard, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

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