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Cheese, Cabbage and Pineapple Salad

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cabbage and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 622 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Cheese, Cabbage and Pineapple Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the cabbage and pineapple together.

  2. Combine with 'White Mayonnaise' dressing as per your preferred recipe.

  3. Place a generous heap of the mixture on a lettuce leaf.

  4. Sprinkle grated or finely cut cheese over the top.

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. Cabbage + lettucetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together622 recipes

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

  2. Pineapple + lettucetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together271 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Pineapple + cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together128 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Cabbage + pineappletop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together33 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Cheese + lettucetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together614 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 cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pineapple, cheese, lettuce):

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Beetrootfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pineapple, cheese, lettuce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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