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Potato Salad.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Chervil and tarragon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 824 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Potato Salad.

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the potatoes and cook them in salted water with their skins on.

  2. Once cooked, drain and peel the potatoes.

  3. Cut the potatoes into slices of equal thickness and place them in a salad bowl.

  4. While warm, season the potatoes with salt, pepper, chervil, tarragon, and parsley in equal amounts.

  5. Add a little chopped chives and a pinch of cayenne pepper.

  6. Finally, mix in oil and vinegar.

  7. Let the salad sit for at least an hour before serving.

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. Chervil + tarragontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together824 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Chervil + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together370 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Tarragon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Tarragon + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together589 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Chervil + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together774 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, chervil, tarragon, parsley, chive, vinegar):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Lettucefits better
  3. Beetrootfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, chervil, tarragon, parsley, chive, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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