Name: Pork or Veal Salad
Ingredients: 2 cups celery, chopped; 1 cup cold roast pork, diced; salad dressing of your choice

Why it works: Celery and pork are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,572 recipes. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

Pork or Veal Salad

Ingredients

2 cups celery, chopped
1 cup cold roast pork, diced
salad dressing of your choice

Directions

Mix the chopped celery and diced cold roast pork in a bowl.
Add your preferred salad dressing and toss to combine.
Serve chilled.

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.

Celery + porktop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,572 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

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

What each ingredient does

Celery: Adds crisp texture and a fresh, mildly vegetal flavour that contrasts the pork.
Cold roast pork: Provides the main protein and savoury, meaty body of the salad.

“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.