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Salade Italienne

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Chervil and tarragon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 824 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Salade Italienne

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the cauliflower by separating it into small pieces.

  2. Add anchovies, sliced truffles, and quartered hard-boiled eggs and lettuce hearts.

  3. Dress the cauliflower, anchovies, and truffles with Plain French Dressing and mix in a few spoonfuls of mayonnaise.

  4. Mix all ingredients thoroughly.

  5. Garnish with the reserved lettuce hearts and eggs.

  6. Sprinkle generously with chopped parsley, chervil, and tarragon before serving.

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. Chervil + tarragontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together824 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Lettuce + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together396 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Lettuce + tarragontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together425 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Parsley + tarragontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Parsley + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together774 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Swap the cauliflower

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (truffle, egg, lettuce, parsley, chervil, tarragon):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Beetrootfits better
  4. Cauliflowerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against truffle, egg, lettuce, parsley, chervil, tarragon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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