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Crab Salad

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and endive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 284 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Crab Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Reserve the white meat and large claws of the crab.

  2. Mix the soft meat with the sharp dressing and salad greens.

  3. Dress and pile the white meat in the center of the salad.

  4. Use the large claws as a base and garnish with small claws and parsley.

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. Lettuce + endivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together284 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Lettuce + radishtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together58 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Lettuce + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,483 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Endive + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together107 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Radish + parsleytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together120 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

Swap the radish

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, crab, lettuce, endive, onion, parsley):

  1. Okrafits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Mustardfits better
  4. Radishthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, crab, lettuce, endive, onion, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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