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Adirondack Salad

A salad of peas, cream cheese, pickles, whipped cream, and dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Peas and cucumber match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 629 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Adirondack Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Drain the juice from the peas.

  2. Cut the cream cheese and pickles into small pieces.

  3. Mix the peas, cheese, and pickles together.

  4. Combine with salad dressing and whipped cream.

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. Peas + cucumbertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together629 recipes

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

  2. Cream cheese + creamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,087 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  3. Cream cheese + cucumbertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together134 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexyl acetate (fruity, apple).

  4. Peas + cream cheesetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together44 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  5. Cucumber + creamtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together787 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Peas
Provide the main bulk and mild sweetness of the salad.
Cream cheese
Adds richness and a creamy texture that binds the salad.
Sweet cucumber pickles
Contribute sweetness and a tangy bite that balances the richness.
Whipped cream
Lightens the dressing and adds airy, creamy body.

Swap the peas

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

  1. Walnutfits better
  2. Pistachiofits better
  3. Beansfits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, cucumber, cream. 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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