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Macedoine Salad

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsnip and beetroot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 144 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Macedoine Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil carrots, turnips, parsnips, peas, green beans, and beetroot separately until tender.

  2. Cut the beans into one-inch pieces and shape the carrots, turnips, parsnips, and beetroot with a vegetable cutter.

  3. Mix all the vegetables together in a bowl.

  4. Layer the mixed vegetables in a dish, adding chopped onion and chillies between layers.

  5. Drizzle equal parts of olive oil and vinegar over the salad.

  6. Garnish with watercress or chopped endive around the 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. Parsnip + beetroottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together144 recipes

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

  2. Turnip + parsniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together590 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Turnip + beetroottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together336 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Carrot + parsniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,097 recipes

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

  5. Carrot + turniptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the green beans

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (carrot, turnip, parsnip, peas, beetroot, onion, olive):

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Lettucefits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Green beansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against carrot, turnip, parsnip, peas, beetroot, onion, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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