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Orange Salad

A citrus salad of sliced oranges dressed with lemon juice, orange rind, salad oil, and cayenne pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Orange Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Peel and slice the oranges into round slices.

  2. Grate the rind of one orange.

  3. Squeeze the juice from one lemon.

Dress and serve

  1. Mix the lemon juice, grated orange rind, salad oil, and cayenne pepper.

  2. Pour the mixture over the sliced oranges.

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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Orange + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,402 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

What each ingredient does

Oranges
Provide the main body, sweetness and juice of the salad.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweet orange flavor.
Salad oil
Carries the aromatic orange rind and cayenne flavor across the fruit.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lemon, pepper):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Orangethe original
  3. Mangofits less well
  4. Cherryfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, pepper. 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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