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Mushrooms and Salad-plants

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Watercress and sorrel share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Mushrooms and Salad-plants

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash young mushrooms and serve them uncooked in a salad.

  2. Combine watercress, dandelion leaves, sorrel, chicory, escarole, corn-salad, and lettuce for a fresh salad.

  3. Plant chives in a pot for repeated use throughout the season.

  4. Blanch dandelion plants by covering them with earth for two weeks to make the leaves sweet and tender.

  5. Grow mustard and garden-cress seeds in a window box for salad greens.

  6. Wash young beet leaves and serve them with French dressing, either alone or with lettuce.

  7. For larger beet leaves, cook them in salted boiling water until tender, then drain and serve hot with salt, pepper, butter, and vinegar, or cold with plain French dressing.

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. Watercress + sorreltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Dandelion + sorreltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Watercress + dandeliontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together20 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Sorrel + lettucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together317 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Watercress + chicorytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together40 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Swap the chive

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mushroom, watercress, dandelion, sorrel, chicory, corn, lettuce):

  1. Beetrootfits better
  2. Spinachfits about as well
  3. Chivethe original
  4. Shallotfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against mushroom, watercress, dandelion, sorrel, chicory, corn, lettuce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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