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Nut-fruit Salad

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Walnut and pine match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 311 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Nut-fruit Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place the blanched walnuts in a bowl.

  2. Peel and core the apples, then cut them into very small cubes.

  3. Mix the apple cubes with the walnuts.

  4. Add enough pine nut dressing to taste.

  5. Serve in individual dishes or on a large platter.

  6. Garnish with sliced navel orange and finely-chopped citron peel if desired.

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. Walnut + pinetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together311 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Apple + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Pine + orangetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together103 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Walnut + orangetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  5. Walnut + appletop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,051 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the orange

The recipe marks orange as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (walnut, apple, pine):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Pearfits better
  3. Grapefits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against walnut, apple, pine. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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