Why it works: Hazelnut and lettuce share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 21 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓
Cherry Salad
Ingredients
Directions
Remove the stones from the cherries.
Fill the cavity of each cherry with hazelnuts and press them together.
Serve the stuffed cherries on a bed of shredded lettuce and drizzle with French dressing.
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.
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Hazelnut + lettucetop 3% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together21 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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