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Corn Salad

A salad of boiled sweet corn with mustard, onion, French dressing, served on endive or lettuce with bacon sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and endive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 121 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Corn Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, combine the cold boiled sweet corn, ground mustard, and grated onion.

  2. Marinate with French Dressing No. I and let stand for one hour.

Serve

  1. Drain the mixture and arrange it on a bed of endive, cress, or lettuce hearts.

  2. Serve with Bacon Sauce.

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. Mustard + endivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together121 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Mustard + oniontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,259 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Onion + endivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together214 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Corn + mustardtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together463 recipes

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

  5. Corn + oniontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,205 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

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

What each ingredient does

Sweet corn
Provides the main body and sweetness of the salad.
Grated onion
Adds sharp aroma and savory flavor to the corn.
Ground mustard
Adds a sharp, pungent note that balances the sweet corn.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Lettucefits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Horseradishfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against corn, mustard, endive, 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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