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Salad of Doucette, Celery , and Beets

A chilled salad of equal parts Doucette, celery, and pickled beets dressed with Sydney Smith’s Salad Dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Corn salad and celery work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Salad of Doucette, Celery , and Beets

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare equal quantities of Doucette and celery.

Combine and serve

  1. Mix the bulk of the celery with the pickled beets.

  2. Add Sydney Smith’s Salad Dressing.

  3. When all ingredients are cold, mix thoroughly.

  4. Serve immediately.

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. Corn salad + celerytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Pickled beets
Adds sweetness and acidity, plus colour and a tangy bite to the salad.
Sydney smith’s salad dressing
Provides moisture and richness that coats the greens and celery.
Celery
Adds crisp texture and a fresh, watery crunch to the salad.
Doucette (corn salad)
Forms the tender leafy base of the salad.

The step that matters

When all ingredients are cold, mix thoroughly.. Cold ingredients keep the greens crisp and prevent the dressing from going limp or warm. Mixing thoroughly ensures the dressing coats every piece evenly without bruising the leaves.

“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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