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Winter Salad

A salad of chopped celery, sliced boiled beet, shrimps, mayonnaise, dusted with powdered coral.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Shrimp and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,423 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Winter Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Finely chop the white parts of the celery.

  2. Slice the boiled beet.

  3. Shell the shrimps.

Assemble and serve

  1. Mix the chopped celery, beet, and shrimps in a bowl.

  2. Add the mayonnaise sauce and mix well.

  3. Dust the top with powdered coral before serving.

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. Shrimp + saucetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,423 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Celery + shrimptop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together812 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Celery + saucetop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,360 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Celery
Provides crisp texture and fresh, slightly savoury bulk to the salad.
Beet
Adds colour and a mild earthy sweetness to the salad.
Shrimps
Contribute the main protein and a delicate, briny flavour.
Mayonnaise sauce
Binds the ingredients together and adds richness and moisture.

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (shrimp, sauce):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Gingerfits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against shrimp, sauce. 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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