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Grape and Orange Salad

A fruit salad of oranges, grapes, walnuts, and dressing served with wafers.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and grape are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,771 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Grape and Orange Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Assemble

  1. Cut the oranges into small pieces and place them on a lettuce leaf on a plate.

  2. Cover with the seeded grapes.

  3. Sprinkle with the chopped English walnuts.

  4. Pour salad dressing over the top.

Serve

  1. Serve with wafers.

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. Orange + grapetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,771 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Grape + walnuttop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,427 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  3. Orange + walnuttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Oranges
Provide the bright, sweet-tart juicy base of the salad.
Seeded grapes
Add sweetness and juicy texture that contrasts with the citrus.
English walnuts
Add crunch and a toasty, nutty flavor against the soft fruit.

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (orange, grape):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Walnutthe original
  3. Pistachiofits less well
  4. Chickpeafits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against orange, grape. 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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