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Hyden Salad

A cabbage salad with green tomatoes, peppers, onions, spices, sugar, vinegar, and optional oil.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 14 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,189 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Hyden Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the vegetables

  1. Sprinkle salt over the chopped green tomatoes and let them stand for a while.

  2. Strain the juice from the tomatoes and discard the juice.

Combine and cook

  1. In a large bowl, combine the cabbage, green tomatoes, green peppers, onions, mixed mustard, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, mace, turmeric, celery seed, and sugar, and mix all ingredients well.

  2. Cover the mixture with vinegar.

  3. Boil slowly until done.

  4. Stir in 1 cup of salad oil 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. Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Ginger + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,380 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Ginger + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,038 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Cabbage + mustardtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

What each ingredient does

Green tomatoes
Provide the bulk and tart, acidic body of the salad.
Cabbage
Adds crisp texture and bulk that holds up during slow cooking.
Sugar
Adds sweetness that balances the vinegar and tartness of the tomatoes.
Vinegar
Supplies acidity that preserves the vegetables and sharpens the flavor.
Onions
Contribute pungent flavor and aromatic depth to the mixture.
Mixed mustard
Adds sharp, pungent flavor that complements the spices.

The step that matters

Strain the salted tomatoes. Salt draws water out of the chopped green tomatoes. Discarding that liquid keeps the salad from becoming watery and dilute once it is cooked and combined.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cabbage, pepper, onion, mustard, ginger, cinnamon, clove):

  1. Horseradishfits better
  2. Broccolifits better
  3. Lettucefits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cabbage, pepper, onion, mustard, ginger, cinnamon, clove. 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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