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Herring Salad

A salad of smoked herring mixed with sliced apple or tomato, dressed and served with lettuce garnish and crackers or bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and wheat match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 105 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Herring Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the skin and bones from the smoked herring.

  2. Cut the fish into small pieces.

Assemble and serve

  1. Mix the herring with the sliced apple or tomato and salad dressing.

  2. Garnish with lettuce.

  3. Serve with soda crackers or wheat/rye bread.

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. Lettuce + wheattop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together105 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Apple + lettucetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together515 recipes

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

  3. Apple + wheattop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together205 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Smoked herring
Provides the main flavour and the flaky, meaty body of the salad.
Apple or tomato
Adds moisture and a fresh, slightly acidic or sweet contrast to the rich fish.
Salad dressing
Binds the fish and fruit or vegetable together and adds moisture and fat.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lettuce, wheat):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against lettuce, wheat. 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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