Why it works: Corn salad and lettuce share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓
Corn Salad
Ingredients
Directions
Carefully pick the corn salad, examining each bunch closely.
Remove the under leaves and cut off the root.
Wash the corn salad twice in cold water, letting it soak for half an hour in the last wash.
Drain the corn salad in a colander.
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 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.
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Corn salad + lettucetop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together11 recipes
Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
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