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Salade a LA Nash - Vegetable Salad, Nash Style

A vegetable salad featuring sliced potatoes, carrots, truffles, and cauliflower marinated in white wine and dressed with mayonnaise and tarragon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,107 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Salade a LA Nash - Vegetable Salad, Nash Style

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, combine the sliced potatoes, carrots, truffles, and cauliflower.

  2. Marinate the vegetables with dry white wine, seasoning with coarse sea salt and freshly ground white pepper.

  3. Dress the salad with mayonnaise, adding tarragon vinegar and chopped tarragon. Toss gently to combine and serve.

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. Potato + carrottop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,107 recipes

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

  2. Carrot + tarragontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together463 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Cauliflower + tarragontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together45 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Tarragon + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,547 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Carrot + cauliflowertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together381 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

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

What each ingredient does

Truffles
Provide the aroma that defines the salad.
Potatoes
Form the bulk of the salad and hold the dressing.
Mayonnaise
Adds fat and richness that coats the vegetables.
Dry white wine
Adds acidity and moisture as the vegetables marinate.

Swap the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, carrot, truffle, cauliflower, white wine, tarragon, vinegar):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Marjoramfits better
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, carrot, truffle, cauliflower, white wine, tarragon, vinegar. 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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