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Lettuce, Club Style

A lettuce salad with mayonnaise, chili sauce, chopped hard‑boiled eggs, and toasted buttered bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Lettuce, Club Style

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Beat the chili sauce into the mayonnaise.

  2. Wash the lettuce thoroughly and dry it.

Assemble and serve

  1. Arrange the lettuce in the shape of a head on a large round platter or in a bowl.

  2. Pour the dressing in and around the leaves.

  3. Sprinkle with the chopped eggs and garnish with the hot toast.

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. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  2. Lettuce + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together602 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Sauce + lettucetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,019 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Sauce + breadtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,934 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Egg + lettucetop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,301 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Mayonnaise dressing
Provides fat and creaminess, coating the leaves and giving the dressing its body.
Hard-cooked eggs
Add richness and a soft, firm texture to the salad.
Chili sauce
Adds sweetness, acidity and a mild heat that flavours the dressing.
Lettuce
Forms the crisp base and structure of the salad.

The step that matters

Wash the lettuce thoroughly and dry it. Water left on the leaves dilutes the dressing and makes it slide off, so the lettuce must be fully dried before assembly.

Swap the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, sauce, bread):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sauce, bread. 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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