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Tbuit Salad

A fruit salad of pineapple, bananas, grapes, orange, candied cherries, dressed with sugar, sherry, maraschino liqueur, and champagne.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Sherry and champagne share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 61 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Tbuit Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In dainty glasses, layer the chopped pineapple, sliced bananas, halved grapes, orange pulp and juice, and candied cherries.

  2. In a bowl, mix the powdered sugar, sherry, maraschino, and champagne until the sugar dissolves.

Assemble and serve

  1. Pour the dressing over the fruit and let it stand in a cold place for one hour 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. Sherry + champagnetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together61 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Pineapple + bananatop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together733 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  4. Banana + grapetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together496 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Pineapple + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Powdered sugar
Sweetens the dressing, and dissolves quickly so it blends evenly into the liquids.
Sherry
Adds acidity and fortified wine flavour to the dressing that complements the fruit.
Orange
Supplies juice and pulp for fresh acidity and bright citrus flavour.
Bananas
Add soft texture and mild sweetness to the layered fruit.

The step that matters

Letting the fruit stand in the dressing. The hour in a cold place lets the dressing soak into the fruit and blend the flavours. Serving too soon leaves the fruit tasting mostly of its own juice and the dressing sitting on top.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pineapple, banana, grape, sugar, sherry, champagne):

  1. Strawberryfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Applefits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, banana, grape, sugar, sherry, champagne. 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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