Name: Margaret Brown
Ingredients: 8 quarts terrapin; 6 heads of lettuce; 14 dozen croquettes; 1 boned turkey; six turkeys; 2-1/2 chickens; 6 dozen stalks of celery; 3 half-pint bottles of olive oil are required; 2-1/2 dozen eggs

Why it works: Lettuce and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,033 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Margaret Brown

Ingredients

Directions

QUANTITY FOR A
RECEPTION OR EVENING PARTY
OF 225 PERSONS.
14 dozen Croquettes; 1 Boned Turkey; 8 quarts Terrapin.
(Six turkeys, 2-1/2 chickens, 6 dozen stalks of celery, 6 heads of lettuce, 3 half-pint bottles of olive oil are required for chicken salad; 2-1/2 dozen eggs for the dressing and garnishing. Parsley can also be used for garnishing the dishes.)
[This quantity can be increased or lessened in proportion to the above number.]

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

562Calories

67 gProtein

30 gFat

3 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 6 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Turkey	100g cooked	189
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Olive Oil	1 tbsp (14g)	119
Egg	1 large egg (50g)	78
Celery	1 stalk (40g)	6
Lettuce	1 cup shredded (36g)	5

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

By Margaret Brown. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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.

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.

Lettuce + celerytop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,033 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Lettuce + olivetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,580 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).
Turkey + chickentop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together688 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).
Chicken + olivetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,888 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).
Celery + olivetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,667 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (lettuce, turkey, chicken, olive, egg):

Thymefits better
Capersfits better
Tarragonfits better
Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against lettuce, turkey, chicken, olive, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.