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Nut Salad

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Nut Salad

Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Nut Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, mix the egg yolk, salt, sugar, mustard, and cayenne pepper.

  2. Slowly add the olive oil drop by drop while stirring continuously.

  3. Moisten the mixture with lemon juice or vinegar.

  4. For the salad dressing, rub the hard-boiled egg yolks smooth with melted butter, salt, dry mustard, sugar, and pepper.

  5. Gradually stir in the milk or cream and enough vinegar to thicken.

  6. Boil the mixture while stirring briskly until smooth, even if it curdles.

  7. If not using cream, dissolve corn-starch in milk to help thicken.

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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Olive + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,922 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  4. Mustard + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Mustard + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, sugar, pepper, olive, lemon, butter, milk):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar, pepper, olive, lemon, butter, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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