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Shrimp Salad No. 2

A chilled salad of shrimp, celery, veal, nuts, and cream dressing, garnished with parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,810 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Shrimp Salad No. 2

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Drain the can of shrimp and place in a bowl.

  2. Add chopped celery, chopped veal, and chopped nuts.

Dress and serve

  1. Mix in Cream Dressing No. 2 until well combined.

  2. Transfer the mixture to a serving dish and sprinkle minced parsley over the top.

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

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

  2. Celery + nutstop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together169 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Veal + parsleytop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,766 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Shrimp + celerytop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together812 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Celery + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,863 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Shrimp
Main protein, supplying most of the salad's body and bulk.
Celery
Adds crisp texture that contrasts with the soft shrimp.
Chopped nuts
Add crunch and a rich, toasty note to the salad.
Cream dressing no. 2
Adds moisture and richness and coats the other ingredients together.

The step that matters

Mix in Cream Dressing No. 2 until well combined. Shrimp is delicate once cooked, so stirring gently and only until coated keeps the pieces intact. Vigorous or prolonged mixing can break them up and make the salad mushy.

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (shrimp, celery, veal, cream, parsley):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Walnutfits better
  3. Chestnutfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against shrimp, celery, veal, cream, parsley. 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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