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
Cook the corn, salt, onion, Worcestershire sauce, carrot, baking soda, celery, and parsley in a saucepan for 20 minutes.
Rub the mixture through a strainer.
Add baking soda, salt, Worcestershire sauce, and hot corn to the strained mixture.
Soak the gelatin in cold water and dissolve it over hot water.
Remove the first mixture from heat, add the dissolved gelatin, and mix well.
Pour the mixture into individual molds that have been wet with cold water.
Chill thoroughly, unmold, and serve on nests of lettuce leaves, garnished with mayonnaise dressing.
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.
Explore the science
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.
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Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together8,053 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
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Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together10,173 recipes
Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
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Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together6,810 recipes
Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
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Corn + carrottop 6% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together794 recipes
Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
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Onion + carrottop 6% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned 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):
- Capsicumbetter flavor fit
- Parsnipbetter flavor fit
- Lettucebetter flavor fit
- 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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