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Sardine Salad En Mayonnaise

A lettuce-based salad with sardines, hard‑boiled eggs, and herbs dressed in mayonnaise.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and cucumber 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 ↓

Sardine Salad En Mayonnaise

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash and drain the lettuce, then break it up into pieces.

  2. Mince the spring onions and garlic, and combine them in a salad bowl.

Assemble and serve

  1. Add the lettuce, spring onions, sliced tomato, and cucumber, then stir together with mayonnaise.

  2. Garnish with quartered hard-boiled eggs, sardines, and sprinkle with tarragon and chervil.

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 + cucumbertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,409 recipes

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

  2. Lettuce + tarragontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together425 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Cucumber + tarragontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together274 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Garlic + tomatotop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

What each ingredient does

Mayonnaise
Coats the vegetables and provides a rich, creamy fat base for the salad.
Hard-boiled eggs
Add a firm, mild protein garnish that contrasts with the crisp vegetables.
Sardines
Supply a salty, savoury fish flavour that stands out against the mild greens.
Lettuce
Forms the crisp, watery bulk of the salad.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lettuce, onion, garlic, tomato, cucumber, egg, tarragon):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Parsleyfits better
  3. Cuminfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lettuce, onion, garlic, tomato, cucumber, egg, tarragon. 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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