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Endive Salad K LA Fran<?alse

A salad of endive dressed with garlic, salt, pepper, olive oil, vinegar, and toasted bread crusts.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Garlic and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25,665 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Endive Salad K LA Fran<?alse

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash and dry the endive quickly to avoid bitterness.

  2. Rub the salad bowl with the clove of garlic.

Make the salad

  1. Slice the endive into the bowl.

  2. Add salt, pepper, olive oil, and vinegar.

  3. Rub the garlic on the bread crusts and add them to the salad.

  4. Stir well with a wooden fork and spoon for a few minutes, then serve.

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.

Explore the science

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. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Endive + walnuttop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together39 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Olive + walnuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,087 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Endive + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together209 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Endive
Forms the crisp, leafy body of the salad.
Olive oil
Adds fat and smooth richness that coats the leaves.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that sharpens the dressing and balances the oil.
Bread crusts
Soak up the dressing and add a toasted garlic flavour.

The step that matters

Wash and dry the endive quickly. Endive leaves that stay wet dilute the dressing so it slides off, and long soaking draws out more bitter compounds. Drying well helps the oil and vinegar cling to the leaves.

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (endive, clove, garlic, pepper, olive, vinegar, bread):

  1. Lentilsfits better
  2. Chickpeafits better
  3. Beansfits better
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against endive, clove, garlic, pepper, olive, vinegar, bread. 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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