Name: Okra Salad
Ingredients: okras; salt; endive; French salad dressing; chopped chives

Why it works: Endive and chive share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 61 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Okra Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Trim the okras and boil them in salted boiling water until tender.
Drain the okras and let them cool.
Wash and crisp the endive, then arrange it on a dish.
Quarter the cooled okras and lay them on top of the endive.
Sprinkle the salad with French dressing and chopped chives.

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.

Endive + chivetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together61 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Okra + endivetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together8 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Okra + chivetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together20 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).