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Orange Salad

A salad of orange shells filled with orange pulp, pineapple, grapes, nuts, candied cherries, sweetened, topped with whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and grape match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 709 recipes. Both carry 1-hexanal, which smells fruit. The science ↓

Orange Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Arrange the orange shells on lettuce leaves.

  2. Add nasturtium leaves or cress around the shells.

Fill and serve

  1. Fill the shells with the orange pulp, pineapple, grapes, nuts, and candied cherries.

  2. Sweeten the mixture to taste.

  3. Top each shell with whipped cream and sprinkle with chopped nuts.

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.

Explore the science

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. Pineapple + grapetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together709 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  2. Orange + pineappletop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  3. Orange + grapetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,771 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Lettuce + pineappletop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together271 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Orange pulp
Provides the main juicy, acidic fruit flavour and moisture of the filling.
Whipped cream
Adds fat and a light, creamy texture that softens the fruit's acidity.
Sugar
Sweetens the filling and balances the acidity of the orange and grapes.
Chopped nuts
Add crunch and a toasty flavour that contrasts with the soft fruit.

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, lettuce, pineapple, grape, sugar, cream):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Chestnutfits better
  3. Pistachiofits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, lettuce, pineapple, grape, sugar, cream. 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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