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Mayonnaise of Fowl

A chilled salad of cooked fowl, lettuce, hard‑boiled eggs, gherkins, carrots, and mayonnaise.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and carrot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 976 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Mayonnaise of Fowl

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Carve the fowl neatly and arrange it in a circle on a serving dish.

  2. Fill the center with shredded lettuce and quartered hard-boiled eggs.

  3. Garnish with alternating slices of gherkins and carrots.

  4. Pour mayonnaise sauce over the entire dish.

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 + carrottop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together976 recipes

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

  2. Lettuce + saucetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,019 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Carrot + saucetop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,509 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Lettuce + eggtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,301 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Egg + carrottop 35% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked fowl
Provides the main protein and the bulk of the salad.
Mayonnaise sauce
Adds moisture and richness, binding the salad with fat and a creamy texture.
Hard-boiled eggs
Add soft, creamy body and mild richness to the salad.

Swap the carrot

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

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Beetrootfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lettuce, egg, sauce. 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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