Why it works: Corn and lettuce work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 270 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓
Corn Salad
Ingredients
Directions
Remove any shreds of silk from the corn kernels.
Line a salad bowl with the lettuce leaves.
Heap the corn in the center of the bowl.
Pour plenty of mayonnaise over the corn.
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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Corn + lettucetop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together270 recipes
Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
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