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Beet Salad

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and cottage cheese work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 85 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Beet Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place torn lettuce on a serving plate.

  2. Add cubed red beets on top of the lettuce.

  3. Pour a spoonful of mayonnaise over the beets.

  4. Top with a small square of cottage cheese.

  5. Serve with wafers.

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. Lettuce + cottage cheesetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85 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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