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Diced Canned Pineapple Salad

A salad of canned diced pineapple, pecan nuts, mild dressing, served on lettuce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pineapple and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 271 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Diced Canned Pineapple Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Drain the canned pineapple in a colander.

  2. Add ½ cup of broken pecan nut meats to the pineapple and mix with any mild salad dressing.

  3. Arrange the mixture on lettuce leaves.

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. Pineapple + lettucetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together271 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Meat + lettucetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together579 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Pineapple + meattop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together157 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl butyrate (fruity, apple).

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

What each ingredient does

Pineapple
Provides sweetness and juicy moisture that the dressing coats.
Pecans
Add crunch and a toasty, nutty flavour against the soft fruit.

Swap the pineapple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, lettuce):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Limefits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Pineapplethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, lettuce. 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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