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Mixed Vegetable Salad, Swedish Style

A Swedish salad of cooked vegetables, smoked beef tongue, pickled herring, apple, and herbs dressed with oil, vinegar, and mustard.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Carrot and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,053 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Mixed Vegetable Salad, Swedish Style

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the vegetables

  1. Cut the cooked young carrots, beets, and potatoes into small pieces using a fancy cutter.

Make the salad

  1. In a bowl, combine the vegetables with smoked beef tongue, pickled herring, and apple.

  2. Season with salt, pepper, oil, and vinegar.

  3. Add chopped parsley, chervil, and mustard dressing.

  4. Mix well.

  5. Arrange the salad in a bowl and garnish with stoned olives and boned anchovies.

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. Carrot + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,053 recipes

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

  2. Parsley + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together774 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Carrot + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,107 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Carrot + cherviltop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together355 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

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

What each ingredient does

Beets
Add colour and an earthy sweetness to the salad.
Potatoes
Provide starchy body that holds the cut pieces together.
Pickled herring
Contributes salty, acidic flavour and a firm, meaty texture.
Smoked beef tongue
Adds smoky, savoury flavour and a tender, chewy texture.

The step that matters

Mix well. Tossing the cut vegetables, meats and dressing evenly ensures each piece is coated and seasoned. Uneven mixing leaves some pieces bland or oily and others sharply acidic.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, potato, beef, pepper, vinegar, parsley, chervil):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, potato, beef, pepper, vinegar, parsley, chervil. 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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