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Corn and Tomato Salad

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Carrot and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 8,053 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Corn and Tomato Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook the corn, salt, onion, Worcestershire sauce, carrot, baking soda, celery, and parsley in a saucepan for 20 minutes.

  2. Rub the mixture through a strainer.

  3. Add baking soda, salt, Worcestershire sauce, and hot corn to the strained mixture.

  4. Soak the gelatin in cold water and dissolve it over hot water.

  5. Remove the first mixture from heat, add the dissolved gelatin, and mix well.

  6. Pour the mixture into individual molds that have been wet with cold water.

  7. Chill thoroughly, unmold, and serve on nests of lettuce leaves, garnished with mayonnaise dressing.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,810 recipes

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

  4. Corn + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together794 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Onion + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together21,601 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 onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (corn, sauce, carrot, celery, parsley, gelatin):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Parsnipbetter flavor fit
  3. Lettucebetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against corn, sauce, carrot, celery, parsley, gelatin. 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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