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Hazel-nut Salad

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and capers match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 372 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Hazel-nut Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak the hazel-nuts in slightly salted water overnight.

  2. In the morning, blanch the hazel-nuts, remove the skin, and cut them in half.

  3. Remove the seeds from the Malaga grapes.

  4. Wash and dice the celery into ½ inch squares.

  5. Cut the boiled chicken breasts into squares the same size as the celery.

  6. Combine the hazel-nuts, grapes, celery, and chicken in a salad bowl.

  7. Season with salt and sweet paprika.

  8. Mix in mayonnaise and add whipped cream.

  9. Chill in the refrigerator until very cold.

  10. Serve on lettuce leaves in pyramids, drizzling some dressing over the top.

  11. Garnish with capers and rose petals.

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 + caperstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together372 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Celery + lettucetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,033 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Celery + caperstop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together405 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Nuts + lettucetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together174 recipes

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

  5. Grape + lettucetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together349 recipes

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

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (grape, celery, chicken, cream, lettuce, capers, rose):

  1. Pistachiofits better
  2. Almondfits better
  3. Walnutfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against grape, celery, chicken, cream, lettuce, capers, rose. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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