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Shrimp Salad

A chilled salad of shrimps mixed with mayonnaise, cucumber, and lettuce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cucumber and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,409 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Shrimp Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Stir the mayonnaise into the shrimps.

  2. Place the mixture in a salad bowl or dish.

  3. Garnish with cucumber and lettuce.

  4. Serve immediately.

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. Cucumber + lettucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,409 recipes

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

  2. Shrimp + lettucetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together430 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Shrimp + cucumbertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together386 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Shrimps
Provides the main protein and the bulk of the salad.
Mayonnaise
An emulsion that coats the shrimp, adding moisture, richness and binding.

The step that matters

Serve immediately. Mayonnaise is an emulsion of oil in egg that loosens and separates as it warms. A salad left sitting in heat loses its creamy texture and can look greasy, so serve it soon after dressing while the shrimp and mayonnaise are still cold.

Swap the cucumber

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

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Beetrootfits better
  3. Mustardfits about as well
  4. Cucumberthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against shrimp, lettuce. 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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