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Yellow Salad

A salad of orange pulp, diced apples, walnuts, French dressing, mayonnaise, lemon juice, and mustard.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Yellow Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Combine diced orange pulp with French dressing and sprinkle with chopped walnuts.

  2. Scoop out the centers of small yellow-skinned apples.

Fill and dress

  1. Fill the apples with a mixture of orange pulp and diced apple.

  2. Dress with mayonnaise made with lemon juice and mustard.

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.

Explore the science

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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Orange + appletop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Walnut + mustardtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together849 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Walnut + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,149 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Lemon + mustardtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,816 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Orange pulp
Provides sweetness, juiciness and bright citrus flavour to the filling.
Mayonnaise
Adds fat and creaminess, giving the dressing a rich, smooth coating.
Walnuts
Add crunch and a toasty, slightly bitter note that contrasts the soft fruit.
Apples
Give the filling crisp texture and mild sweetness, and serve as the edible cup.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavour and helps balance the richness of the mayonnaise.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, walnut, lemon, mustard):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, walnut, lemon, mustard. 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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