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Salad for Cold Lamb

A salad of lettuces, watercress, radishes, tarragon, corn salad, chives, beetroot, dressed with olive oil, anchovy sauce, chili vinegar, egg yolk cream, and vinegar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Corn salad and beetroot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Salad for Cold Lamb

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a salad bowl, combine the chopped lettuces, watercress, radishes, tarragon, corn salad, chives, and beetroot.

  2. In a separate bowl, mix the olive oil, anchovy sauce, chili vinegar, beaten egg yolks with cream, and salt.

  3. Pour the dressing over the salad and add the vinegar, then toss everything together until evenly mixed.

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 + beetroottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Lettuce + beetroottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together678 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  3. Watercress + corn saladtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Watercress + beetroottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together143 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Lettuce + watercresstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together307 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

Hard-boiled egg yolks
Beaten with cream, they bind into a rich, creamy dressing that coats the leaves.
Olive oil
Adds fat and smoothness to the dressing, carrying the flavours across the leaves.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that brightens the salad and balances the richness of the dressing.
Lettuces
Form the bulk of the salad, providing crisp body and moisture.

Swap the radish

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lettuce, watercress, tarragon, corn salad, chive, beetroot, olive):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Kalefits better
  3. Welsh onionfits better
  4. Radishthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lettuce, watercress, tarragon, corn salad, chive, beetroot, olive. 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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