Name: Shrimp Salad
Ingredients: 1 can of shrimps; 4 heads of celery, washed, scraped, and cut into small pieces; mayonnaise dressing; celery leaves for garnish

Why it works: Shrimp and celery work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 812 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Shrimp Salad

Ingredients

1 can of shrimps
4 heads of celery, washed, scraped, and cut into small pieces
mayonnaise dressing
celery leaves for garnish

Directions

Prepare

Open the can of shrimps and remove any bits of shell.
Mix the shrimps with the chopped celery.

Dress and serve

Add mayonnaise dressing to the mixture and combine well.
Transfer the mixture to a fancy dish and garnish with celery leaves.

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.

Shrimp + celerytop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together812 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Shrimps: Provides the main protein and flavour of the salad.
Celery: Adds crisp texture and a fresh, mild crunch to the salad.
Mayonnaise dressing: Adds fat and creaminess that binds the shrimp and celery together.

“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.