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Endive Salad, Feench Style

A salad of endive leaves with garlic‑rubbed bread crust, seasoned with salt, pepper, vinegar, and olive oil.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Garlic and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25,665 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Endive Salad, Feench Style

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash and trim the endives, then separate the leaves and drain them.

  2. Place the endive leaves in a salad bowl.

Dress and serve

  1. Rub the garlic on the bread crust pieces and add them to the salad.

  2. Season with salt, pepper, vinegar, and olive oil.

  3. Mix gently and dress the salad just 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. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Endive + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together209 recipes

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

  4. Endive + clovetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together59 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Endive + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together83 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

Endives
Provide the crisp, slightly bitter leaves that form the body of the salad.
Garlic
Adds aroma to the bread crust pieces as they are rubbed with it.
Bread crust
Adds a crunchy texture that contrasts with the tender leaves.
Olive oil
Carries flavour and coats the leaves, adding richness.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that brightens the dressing and balances the oil.

The step that matters

Dress the salad just before serving. Acid and oil wilt delicate leaves and soften the bread over time, so dressing early leaves the salad limp. Mixing gently keeps the leaves intact and the crust crisp.

Swap the endive

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (clove, garlic, bread, pepper, vinegar, olive):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Eggplantfits better
  4. Endivethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against clove, garlic, bread, pepper, vinegar, 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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