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Pork Salad

A salad made with roasted pork, celery, apples, and dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and apple are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,155 recipes. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

Pork Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Roast the pork until tender and white.

  2. Cut the pork into small pieces.

  3. Dice equal quantities of celery and fresh crisp acid apples.

Assemble and serve

  1. Mix the pork, celery, and apples together.

  2. Serve with your choice of dressing.

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. Celery + appletop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,155 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  2. Pork + appletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,581 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  3. Pork + celerytop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,572 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

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

What each ingredient does

Lean fresh pork
Provides the main protein, which turns tender and white when roasted through.
Celery
Adds crisp texture and a mild, fresh crunch to the salad.
Fresh crisp acid apples
Adds crunch and tartness that brightens the rich pork.

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, apple):

  1. Clovefits better
  2. Sagefits better
  3. Gingerfits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, apple. 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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