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Macedoine Vegetable Salad

Use only young and sweetly flavored turnips; old or strongly flavored turnips may spoil the salad.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Turnip and artichoke match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 140 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Macedoine Vegetable Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook the vegetables as described in Macedoine Garniture, No. 1688.

  2. Cut the cooked vegetables into desired shapes using fancy cutters.

  3. Keep each type of vegetable separate and drain them.

  4. Season the vegetables with salt, pepper, olive oil, and vinegar.

  5. When ready to serve, mix the vegetables and dress them in a salad bowl with Ravigote or Mayonnaise sauce.

  6. For a large salad, dress each vegetable in bunches, alternating them for a pleasing effect.

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. Turnip + artichoketop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together140 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Carrot + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,173 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  3. Asparagus + artichoketop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together165 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Asparagus + beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together292 recipes

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

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

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (asparagus, beans, carrot, turnip, artichoke, celery, pepper):

  1. Lentilsfits better
  2. Chestnutfits better
  3. Chickpeafits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against asparagus, beans, carrot, turnip, artichoke, celery, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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