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Salad, Roman

A salad of cultivated endive dressed with gravy, oil, onions, vinegar, and honey.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Vinegar and honey are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,586 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Salad, Roman

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash and drain the endive, then cut it into small pieces.

  2. Pour gravy and oil over the endive.

  3. Sprinkle finely minced onions on top.

  4. Add a little vinegar and honey.

  5. Serve the salad 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. Vinegar + honeytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,586 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Endive + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together214 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Onion + vinegartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,226 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  4. Endive + vinegartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together221 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Onion + honeytop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetal (cream, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Cultivated endive
Provides the crisp, leafy base that makes up most of the salad.
Oil
Adds fat that carries flavor and gives the leaves a smoother mouthfeel.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that brightens the salad and balances the richer ingredients.
Honey
Adds sweetness that softens the sharpness of the vinegar and onion.
Finely minced onions
Adds a sharp, pungent aroma and bite.

Swap the endive

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, vinegar, honey):

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Cucumberfits better
  4. Endivethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, vinegar, honey. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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.

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