Skip to main content
Salad

Nut-fruit Salad

A salad of diced apples and blanched walnuts dressed with pine kernel dressing, optionally garnished with sliced orange and citron peel.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Walnut and pine match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 311 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Nut-fruit Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Peel and core the apples, then cut them into very small cubes.

  2. Mix the apple cubes with the blanched walnuts.

  3. Add enough pine kernel dressing to suit your taste.

  4. Garnish with sliced orange if desired.

  5. For improved flavor, add finely chopped citron peel.

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.

Explore the science

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. Walnut + pinetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together311 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Apple + orangetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Pine + orangetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together103 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Walnut + orangetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,058 recipes

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

  5. Apple + walnuttop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,051 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Apples
Add juicy crunch and tartness that balances the rich nuts and dressing.
Blanched english walnuts
Provide crunch and a rich, fatty texture that contrasts with the apple.
Pine kernel dressing
Moistens the salad and carries flavor through the apples and walnuts.

Swap the orange

The recipe marks orange as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, walnut, pine):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Pearfits better
  3. Grapefits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, walnut, pine. 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.

You might also like

Chicken SaladChicken Salad623 recipesSalad DressingSalad Dressing491 recipesTomato SaladTomato Salad179 recipesCold SlawCold Slaw160 recipes