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Salad a LA Corbalus

A salad of sliced potatoes, beetroot, lettuce, and anchovy fillets dressed with mayonnaise or salad dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Beetroot and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 678 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: egg, fish (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Prepare

  1. Slice the potatoes and beetroot into ¼-inch thick slices.

  2. Fillet the anchovy fillets.

  3. Cut the lettuce into 2-inch long pieces.

Assemble

  1. Mix the potatoes, beetroot, lettuce, and anchovy fillets with salad dressing or mayonnaise sauce.

  2. Arrange the salad on a dish with potatoes and beetroot on the outside and lettuce and anchovy fillets in the middle.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Beetroot + lettucetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together678 recipes

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

  2. Anchovy + saucetop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,048 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Potato + beetroottop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together329 recipes

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

  4. Potato + lettucetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together322 recipes

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

  5. Anchovy + lettucetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together185 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Provide the bulk and starchy body that makes the salad hearty.
Beetroot
Adds earthy sweetness and a deep colour to the salad.
Anchovy fillets
Add a salty, savoury depth that seasons the whole salad.
White cos lettuce
Adds crisp texture and cool, fresh moisture.

Flavor stand-ins for the potato

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

  1. Spinachbetter flavor fit
  2. Mustardbetter flavor fit
  3. Horseradishbetter flavor fit
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beetroot, anchovy, lettuce, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

“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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