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Pineapple and Mars'hmallow Salad

A chilled salad of diced pineapple, celery, and marshmallows mixed with mayonnaise, whipped cream, salt, and paprika.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and celery work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 230 recipes. Both carry myrcene, which smells balsamic, herbaceous. The science ↓

Pineapple and Mars'hmallow Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, combine marshmallows, pineapple, and celery.

  2. Add mayonnaise and whipped cream, mixing gently.

  3. Season with salt and paprika to taste.

  4. Serve chilled.

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. Pineapple + celerytop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together230 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

  2. Celery + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,863 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  3. Pineapple + creamtop 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

Marshmallows
Soften and add sweetness and a light, chewy texture to the salad.
Pineapple
Adds sweetness and juicy, bright acidity that balances the rich dressing.
Celery
Adds crisp texture that contrasts with the soft marshmallows and pineapple.
Mayonnaise
Adds fat and creaminess, binding the fruit and vegetables together.
Whipped cream
Lightens the dressing with air, making it fluffier and less dense.

Swap the pineapple

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against celery, cream. 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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