Why it works: Cream cheese and lettuce work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 213 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓
American Cream Cheese Salad
Ingredients
Directions
Season the grated or mashed cream cheese with coarse sea salt.
Mold the cheese into balls the size of marbles.
Serve the cheese balls on lettuce leaves and drizzle with French 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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Cream cheese + lettucetop 21% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together213 recipes
Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
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What each ingredient does
- Cream cheese
- Provides the rich, creamy body of the salad and holds its shape when molded into balls.
“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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