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Peas and Cheese Salad

A salad of cooked green peas, cream cheese, mayonnaise, served on lettuce leaves, optionally topped with chopped pickle.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Peas and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,293 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Peas and Cheese Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Make the salad

  1. In a bowl, combine the cooked green peas and cream cheese cubes.

  2. Add the mayonnaise and mix gently until well combined.

Serve

  1. Serve the mixture on lettuce leaves.

  2. If desired, sprinkle with chopped pickle.

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. Peas + lettucetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,293 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Peas + cream cheesetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together44 recipes

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

  3. Cream cheese + lettucetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together213 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Cream cheese
Melts slightly and adds richness and a creamy texture to the salad.
Mayonnaise
Adds moisture and fat, binding the peas and cheese into a smooth mixture.
Green peas
Provide the main body, sweetness, and bulk of the salad.

Swap the lettuce

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

  1. Cucumberfits better
  2. Asparagusfits about as well
  3. Chivefits about as well
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peas, cream cheese. 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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