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Scallop Salad

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Scallop and celery work together. They rank in the top 28% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 16 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Scallop Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak scallops in salt water for 30 minutes.

  2. Rinse scallops in cold water.

  3. Boil scallops for 20 minutes.

  4. Mix scallops with equal parts of celery.

  5. Serve with mayonnaise.

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. Scallop + celerytop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

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