Why it works: Endive and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 284 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓
Endive Salad
Ingredients
Directions
Remove the green leaves from the endive and place the yellow part in cold water.
Separate the leaves, wash them in two changes of water, and pick them carefully.
Cut the leaves into 2-inch pieces and arrange them in a salad dish with the curled ends on top.
Serve with lettuce salad dressing.
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 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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Endive + lettucetop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together284 recipes
Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).
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