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Radish and Cheese Salad

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Radish and lettuce share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 58 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Radish and Cheese Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash and scrape out the centers of the radishes.

  2. Add the removed radish centers to the cream cheese along with pimientos or nuts.

  3. Mix well and fill the radishes with the mixture.

  4. Serve on lettuce leaves with dressing.

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. Radish + lettucetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together58 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Nuts + lettucetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together174 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  3. Cream cheese + nutstop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together56 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  4. Radish + nutstop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Cream cheese + lettucetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together213 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

Swap the nuts

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

  1. Sesamefits better
  2. Beansfits better
  3. Walnutfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

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

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