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Another Chicken Salad

A salad of boiled chicken, pickles, eggs, onion, cheese, apples, seasoned with salt, pepper, oil or butter, vinegar, and garnished with parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,779 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Another Chicken Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil and chop the chicken finely.

  2. Chop the green pickles, hard boiled eggs, onion, cheese, and apples finely.

Mix and serve

  1. Mix all chopped ingredients with the chicken.

  2. Add salt, pepper, olive oil or melted butter, and vinegar; stir well until combined.

  3. Transfer to a salad dish or platter and garnish with parsley.

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.

Explore the science

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. Onion + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  3. Chicken + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,888 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

  4. Cheese + appletop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together294 recipes

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

  5. Olive + vinegartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,297 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

Chicken
Provides the main protein and bulk of the salad.
Hard boiled eggs
Add richness and a soft, creamy texture to the mixture.
Olive oil or melted butter
Adds fat for moisture and a smooth, rich mouthfeel.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that brightens the flavor and balances the fat.
Apple
Contributes crisp texture and mild sweetness.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, egg, onion, cheese, pepper, olive, vinegar):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Grapefits better
  3. Plumfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, egg, onion, cheese, pepper, olive, 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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