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Cherry Salad

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and endive share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Cherry Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Stuff red cherries with blanched almonds.

  2. Stuff white cherries with cream cheese.

  3. Mix the stuffed cherries lightly with dressing.

  4. Serve on a bed of endive or lettuce.

  5. Accompany with bread hatchets.

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. Almond + endivetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together19 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Cream cheese + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together166 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Endive + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together39 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Almond + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together858 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetylpyrazine (roast).

  5. Almond + cream cheesetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together243 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

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

Swap the endive

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (almond, cream cheese, bread):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Lettucefits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Endivethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against almond, cream cheese, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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