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Vegetable Salads

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 17 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and capers match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 624 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Vegetable Salads

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Select a variety of raw or cooked vegetables.

  2. Season with coarse sea salt, black pepper, oil, and vinegar.

  3. Dress endives and dandelion with a plain dressing and add garlic-rubbed bread.

  4. For corn-salad, dress with pickled beets.

  5. Add mustard dressing and Worcestershire sauce to celery if desired.

  6. Serve water-cress fresh and plain, excellent with roasted or broiled fowl.

  7. Do not dress lettuce until ready to serve; add fine herbs and hard-boiled eggs if desired.

  8. Mix young and tender vegetables in spring, ensuring they harmonize in taste and color.

  9. Be cautious with seasoning; always mix oil first before adding vinegar.

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 + caperstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together624 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Capers + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,688 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Garlic + caperstop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together834 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Garlic + mustardtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4,053 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, vinegar, mustard, sauce, egg, capers, olive):

  1. Tarragonfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Dillfits better
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, vinegar, mustard, sauce, egg, capers, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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