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Thanksgiving Salad

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Thanksgiving Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Trim and wash the red cabbage, removing the center and turning the outer leaves down gracefully.

  2. Soak the cabbage and celery in ice water for 2 hours.

  3. Make the mayonnaise by mixing oil or a cooked dressing with mustard.

  4. Drain and dry the cabbage and celery, then shred the peppers.

  5. Mix the white cabbage, celery, and peppers with the mayonnaise dressing.

  6. Fill the hollowed red cabbage with the mixture, leaving space for the red cabbage mixture.

  7. Combine the red cabbage with mayonnaise, olives, pickles, parsley, and chives.

  8. Fill the well in the red cabbage with the red mixture and garnish with a caper.

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. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Mustard + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together587 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

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

  4. Mustard + celerytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,169 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Parsley + chivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mustard, celery, lemon, olive, parsley, chive):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Lettucefits better
  3. Broccolifits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against mustard, celery, lemon, olive, parsley, chive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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