Name: Sweetbread Salad No. 2
Ingredients: a teaspoonful of salt; a sprig of celery; a clove of garlic in a two-inch square of bread; salt

Why it works: Celery and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,668 recipes. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. The science ↓

Sweetbread Salad No. 2

Ingredients

a teaspoonful of salt
a sprig of celery
a clove of garlic in a two-inch square of bread
salt

Directions

Select a pair of calf’s sweetbreads, wash in cold water, put on in boiling water, and add a teaspoonful of salt, a little onion, and a sprig of celery. Cover the saucepan and let them simmer gently for half an hour. Lift the sweetbreads out, and throw at once into cold water. When cold, pick them apart by taking out all the membrane, and stand them away. When ready to serve, insert a clove of garlic in a two-inch square of bread and put it on the bottom of the salad bowl. Arrange over it a bed of lettuce leaves. Mix the sweetbreads with mayonnaise dressing, heap them on top of the lettuce leaves, and garnish with capers and sliced olives.
_Where’s the man that can live without dining._
--+Owen Meredith.+

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

472Calories

14 gProtein

2 gFat

99 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 5 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Celery	1 stalk (40g)	6
Garlic	1 clove (3g)	4
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

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

By Olive M. Hulse. 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.

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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.

Celery + clovetop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together4,668 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).
Clove + garlictop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,368 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Celery + garlictop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together4,321 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Garlic + breadtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together767 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Celery + breadtop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,110 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).