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Peach Salad

A salad of sliced peaches, blanched almonds, mayonnaise, whipped cream, served on lettuce leaves.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 210 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Peach Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pare the peaches and cut them into thin slices.

  2. Slice the blanched almonds very thin.

Assemble and serve

  1. Mix the peaches and almonds with the mayonnaise and whipped cream.

  2. Serve immediately on lettuce leaves.

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. Almond + lettucetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together210 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Peach + almondtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together466 recipes

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

  3. Peach + lettucetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34 recipes

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

  4. Almond + creamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,130 recipes

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

  5. Peach + creamtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together721 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Peaches
Provide sweetness, juiciness and a soft, fruity body to the salad.
Almonds
Add crunch and a nutty flavour that contrasts with the soft fruit.
Mayonnaise
Adds fat and richness, binding the fruit and almonds into a creamy dressing.
Whipped cream
Adds lightness and a smooth, airy creaminess to the dressing.

The step that matters

Serve immediately. Once dressed, the almonds soften as they absorb moisture from the fruit and dressing, and the whipped cream gradually loses its airy texture. Serving soon after mixing keeps the crunch and lightness intact.

Swap the peach

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

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against almond, cream, lettuce. 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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