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Creole Salad

A salad of orange sections, olives, green pepper, dressed with olive oil, lemon juice, and coarse sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Creole Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Line a salad bowl with young, delicate lettuce leaves, well washed and dried.

  2. Break the oranges into sections, remove the skin from each section, and cut them in half.

  3. Shred the green pepper and sprinkle it over the oranges.

  4. Add the chopped olives.

Dress and serve

  1. Season with olive oil, coarse sea salt, and 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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Olive + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,922 recipes

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

  4. Orange + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,456 recipes

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

  5. Orange + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,402 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

What each ingredient does

Oranges
Provide sweetness and juicy, refreshing bulk to the salad.
Olives
Add a salty, savoury note that contrasts with the sweet oranges.
Green pepper
Adds crisp texture and a fresh, slightly bitter edge.
Olive oil
Adds fat and smooth richness that carries the flavours of the dressing.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the salad and balances the sweetness.

Swap the orange

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, pepper, lemon):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Orangethe original
  3. Avocadofits less well
  4. Cherryfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, pepper, lemon. 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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