Name: A Combination Salad
Ingredients: a dash of sugar; one family this salad is often the chief dish at luncheon; lemon juice; pepper; salt

Why it works: Lemon and pepper 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 ↓

A Combination Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Cucumbers are served in various ways, made into boats, stuffed and in cream soups, but one of the most nutritious ways of serving them is in a salad with crisp lettuce, young onions and radishes. In one family this salad is often the chief dish at luncheon. It is made in a large salad bowl, in which the crisp lettuce leaves are tossed with slices of ice-cold cucumber, young onions and radishes, and then mixed with a generous amount of dressing made of olive oil, lemon juice, pepper and salt, and a dash of sugar. Use about -a quarter as much lemon juice as olive oil. Thin slices of bread and butter, cocoa and a plain cake, served with the salad, make an excellent lunch for midday or afternoon refreshment. — Contributed.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

67Calories

1 gProtein

0 gFat

18 gCarbs

Counts 4 of 5 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Lemon	juice of 1 lemon (48ml)	12
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Salad	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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. See the original page.

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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.

Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together27,047 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together53,532 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Sugar + peppertop 32% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together19,401 recipes

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