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Vinaigrette of Cold Meat

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Beetroot and cucumber match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 345 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Vinaigrette of Cold Meat

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Slice the cold cooked meat and arrange it on a dish.

  2. Add sliced cold potatoes, quartered hard-boiled eggs, and slices of beetroot.

  3. Season with pepper and coarse sea salt.

  4. Mix 3 tablespoons of oil with 2 tablespoons of vinegar and pour over the meat and vegetables.

  5. Toss the mixture lightly with a fork.

  6. If desired, add sliced cucumber, chopped parsley, and finely-minced onion.

  7. For extra flavor, mix in a few drops of tarragon or chili vinegar.

  8. Serve the ingredients arranged in rings for a colorful presentation.

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. Beetroot + cucumbertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together345 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  3. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

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

  4. Beetroot + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together745 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Potato + beetroottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together330 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

Swap the cucumber

The recipe marks cucumber as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, potato, egg, beetroot, pepper, vinegar, parsley):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Lettucefits better
  4. Cucumberthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, potato, egg, beetroot, pepper, vinegar, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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