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Game Salad

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Why it works: Quail and lettuce work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19 recipes. Both carry 2-nonanone, which smells fruity, floral. The science ↓

Game Salad

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderately warm oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine chopped quail and lettuce hearts in a bowl.

  2. Toss gently to mix and serve immediately.

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. Quail + lettucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

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

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