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Nkw Salads

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,559 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Nkw Salads

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Make lemon jelly and pour it into small molds or jelly glasses. Let it firm up.

  2. Carefully turn out the jelly onto lettuce and remove the inside with a warm teaspoon.

  3. Fill the jelly cups with halved and seeded white grapes, and place some around the cup.

  4. Make mayonnaise as stiff as possible, then beat in enough whipped cream to achieve a usual consistency.

  5. Add a spoonful of the mayonnaise mixture by each mold.

  6. For the cherry salad, remove the stones from large black cherries and replace them with hazel nuts.

  7. Arrange the cherries on chilled lettuce leaves and serve with a French dressing made with lemon juice.

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. Lemon + lettucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,559 recipes

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

  2. Lettuce + nutstop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together174 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  3. Lettuce + grapetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together349 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  4. Lemon + grapetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,412 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Grape + nutstop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together224 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

Swap the grape

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

  1. Limefits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Grapethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lemon, lettuce, cream, nuts. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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