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Endive Salad, American Style

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Tarragon and chervil match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 824 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Endive Salad, American Style

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Trim and wash the endives, then separate the leaves and place them on a napkin to absorb moisture.

  2. In a salad bowl, season the leaves with salt, pepper, olive oil, and vinegar.

  3. Add the chopped tarragon and chervil.

  4. Chop the shallots, wrap them in a towel, and dip in boiling water for one minute.

  5. Immerse the shallots in cold water, wring them dry, and add to the salad, mixing gently.

  6. Arrange the salad, topping it with sliced green bell peppers and garnish with quartered hard-boiled eggs.

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. Tarragon + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together824 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Chervil + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together266 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Endive + cherviltop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together75 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Endive + tarragontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together75 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Tarragon + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together602 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

Swap the endive

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, olive, vinegar, tarragon, chervil, shallot, egg):

  1. Chivefits about as well
  2. Endivethe original
  3. Lettucefits about as well
  4. Mustardfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, olive, vinegar, tarragon, chervil, shallot, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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