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Russian Dressing

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,568 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Russian Dressing

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Add chopped stuffed olives and chili sauce to the mayonnaise dressing.

  2. Mix well to combine.

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. Olive + saucetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,568 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

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