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Eggs and Cheese Salad

A salad of sliced hard‑cooked eggs, grated cheese, cucumber pickle, salad dressing, served with toasted crackers.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and cucumber work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 411 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Eggs and Cheese Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Assemble

  1. Slice the hard cooked eggs and arrange them in a salad dish.

  2. Cover the eggs thickly with grated cheese.

  3. Add a layer of finely chopped cucumber pickle on top.

  4. Drizzle salad dressing over the layers.

  5. Sprinkle additional cheese over everything.

Serve

  1. Serve with toasted crackers.

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. Cheese + cucumbertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together411 recipes

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

  2. Egg + cucumbertop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,346 recipes

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

  3. Egg + cheesetop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,253 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Hard cooked eggs
Form the main body of the salad and add rich, substantial texture.
Grated cheese
Adds savory flavor and a creamy, binding richness to the layers.
Cucumber pickle
Adds acidity and a crisp, tangy contrast to the rich eggs and cheese.
Salad dressing
Adds moisture and tang that soaks into the layers and carries flavor.

Swap the cucumber

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, cheese):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Welsh onionfits better
  4. Cucumberthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, cheese. 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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