Why it works: Cream and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,827 recipes. Both carry 2-nonanone, which smells fruity, floral. The science ↓
Whipped Cream Salad Dressing
Ingredients
Directions
Make the dressing
In a bowl, combine the whipped cream, onion juice, and salt.
Whip thoroughly until well mixed.
Prepare the onion juice
To extract onion juice, grate the onion over a plate and tilt the plate to collect the juice.
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.
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Cream + oniontop 18% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together10,827 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).
Cream and onion barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,827 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Whipped cream
- Provides the rich, creamy body and smooth texture of the dressing.
- Onion juice
- Adds sharp, savoury onion flavour to the cream.
The step that matters
Whip thoroughly until well mixed. Whipped cream can turn grainy or begin to separate into butter if overbeaten, while underbeating leaves the onion juice and salt unevenly distributed. Stop once the mixture is smooth and evenly combined.
“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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