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Roast Pork Salad

A salad of cold roast pork, celery, hard‑boiled eggs, and dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and celery are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,572 recipes. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

Roast Pork Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the pork, using only soft white pieces.

  2. Cut the celery into ½-inch lengths and add to the pork.

  3. Hard boil the eggs.

  4. Chop the whites finely.

Assemble

  1. Add the chopped whites to the mixture.

  2. Add enough salad dressing to moisten the salad.

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. Pork + celerytop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,572 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  2. Pork + eggtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,387 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Egg + celerytop 34% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,334 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Roast pork
Provides the main meaty body and substance of the salad.
Eggs
Add a soft, mild texture and bulk to the chopped mixture.
Celery
Adds crisp texture and freshness that contrasts with the soft pork and egg.
Salad dressing
Moistens the salad and carries flavor through the chopped ingredients.

The step that matters

Add the salad dressing gradually. Dressing should be added only until the salad is moist. Too much thins the mixture and pools at the bottom of the bowl, making the salad soggy and loose.

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, egg):

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Sagefits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, egg. 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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