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Soy Bean Salad

A salad of cooked soy beans, onion, pickles, celery or cabbage, seasoned with paprika.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Beans and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,159 recipes. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

Soy Bean Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine the cooked soy beans, chopped onion, chopped sour pickles, and chopped celery or cabbage in a bowl.

  2. Season with paprika to taste.

  3. Serve with a boiled dressing.

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. Beans + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,159 recipes

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

  2. Onion + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Beans + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,242 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked soy beans
Provide the main body and protein of the salad.
Onion
Adds sharp, aromatic flavor that brightens the beans.
Sour pickles
Add acidity and a tangy bite that balances the mild beans.
Celery or cabbage
Adds crisp texture and fresh crunch to the salad.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beans, celery):

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Lettucefits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beans, celery. 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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