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Roquefort Salad Dressing

A creamy dressing made with dry mustard, salt, pepper, sugar, olive oil, vinegar, and Roquefort cheese.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,067 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Roquefort Salad Dressing

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Rub an onion over the bottom of a bowl.

Make the dressing

  1. Stir together dry mustard, coarse sea salt, black pepper, and sugar.

  2. Add olive oil and vinegar, and mix well.

  3. Slowly add Roquefort cheese and rub until the dressing is smooth.

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.

Explore the science

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. Mustard + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Mustard + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Mustard + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Olive + vinegartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,297 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  5. Pepper + olivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Roquefort cheese
Adds a strong, tangy flavor and creamy body to the dressing.
Olive oil
Forms the base of the dressing, providing fat, body, and richness.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that brightens the dressing and balances the oil.
Dry mustard
Contributes sharp, pungent flavor and helps emulsify the oil and vinegar.

The step that matters

Slowly add Roquefort cheese and rub until the dressing is smooth. Crumbly cheese will not blend into oil and vinegar in one go. Adding it gradually and working it against the bowl breaks it down and lets it disperse evenly, giving a smooth dressing instead of lumps.

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, sugar, olive, vinegar, roquefort cheese):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Mustardthe original
  3. Tomatofits about as well
  4. Lettucefits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, sugar, olive, vinegar, roquefort cheese. 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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