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Endive Grapefruit Salad

A salad of endive, grapefruit, Roquefort cheese, and French dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Endive and grapefruit share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Endive Grapefruit Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and assemble

  1. Wash and dry the endive, then arrange it on individual plates.

  2. Scoop out the pulp from the grapefruit and heap it at the end of the endive stalks.

  3. Sprinkle the crumbled Roquefort cheese over the salad.

  4. Pour French dressing over the entire salad.

Note

  1. If necessary, substitute romaine for the endive.

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. Endive + grapefruittop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Endive + roquefort cheesetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5 recipes

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

  3. Roquefort cheese + grapefruittop 36% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

What each ingredient does

Endive
Forms the crisp, slightly bitter base that holds the other components.
Roquefort cheese
Adds salty, tangy richness that contrasts with the grapefruit's acidity.
Grapefruit
Provides bright acidity and juicy sweetness that cuts through the cheese and dressing.

Swap the grapefruit

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (endive, roquefort cheese):

  1. Pearfits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Applefits better
  4. Grapefruitthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against endive, roquefort cheese. 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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