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Deessing Foe Cold Slaw

A dressing made with black pepper, mustard, sugar, sour cream, vinegar, and salt for cold slaw.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Deessing Foe Cold Slaw

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dressing

  1. In a bowl, combine black pepper, mustard, white sugar, sour cream, vinegar, and salt. Mix well until smooth.

  2. Adjust sweetness with more sugar if desired.

Serve

  1. Pour the dressing over cold slaw.

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Pepper + mustardtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Pepper + vinegartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Sugar + vinegartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,806 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Sour cream
Adds creamy body and mild richness to the dressing.
Vinegar
Provides acidity that brightens the dressing and balances the sugar.
White sugar
Adds sweetness that offsets the sharpness of the vinegar.
Mustard
Adds sharp, pungent flavour that gives the dressing depth.

Swap the mustard

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

  1. Capsicumfits about as well
  2. Mustardthe original
  3. Horseradishfits less well
  4. Cucumberfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, sugar, cream, vinegar. 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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