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A Virginia Pousse-cafe

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Ham and lettuce work together. They rank in the top 25% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 276 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

A Virginia Pousse-cafe

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Slice the cold ham as directed.

  2. Curl the slices upon small crisp lettuce leaves.

  3. Serve a leaf and a curl of pink ham on each cool individual plate.

  4. Send to the table.

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. Ham + lettucetop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together276 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

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