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Vegetable Salads

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and lettuce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 25% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,287 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Vegetable Salads

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Slice small beets or chop large beets.

  2. While warm, mix chopped beets with butter and pack into a small mold.

  3. Let it cool, then unmold onto a lettuce leaf.

  4. Drizzle with French dressing 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.

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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. Butter + lettucetop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

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