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Salmagundi Salad

A cold salad of veal, peas, mushrooms, walnuts, and mayonnaise dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Peas and mushroom work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 890 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Salmagundi Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the veal

  1. Cook the veal steak in salted water with a little vinegar until tender.

  2. Chop the veal steak into small pieces.

Assemble and serve

  1. In a bowl, mix the chopped veal, French peas, chopped mushrooms, and chopped walnut meats.

  2. Pour mayonnaise dressing or cooked dressing with a little sugar over the mixture before serving.

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. Peas + mushroomtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together890 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Mushroom + walnuttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together763 recipes

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

  3. Walnut + meattop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,035 recipes

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

  4. Veal + mushroomtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,446 recipes

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

  5. Peas + walnuttop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together170 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Veal steak
Provides the main protein, which becomes tender when simmered in salted water.
English walnut meats
Adds crunch and a rich, nutty flavour against the softer ingredients.
Mayonnaise dressing
Adds moisture and creaminess that binds the salad together.

The step that matters

Cooking the veal until tender. Veal cooked too briefly stays tough and chewy, and the chopped pieces will feel dry. Simmering gently in salted water with a little vinegar until a fork pierces it easily gives a tender result before it is chopped.

Swap the peas

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, vinegar, mushroom, walnut, meat, sugar):

  1. Sesamefits better
  2. Chestnutfits better
  3. Peanutfits better
  4. Peasthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against veal, vinegar, mushroom, walnut, meat, sugar. 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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