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Lettuce with Gravy

A dish of minced lettuce simmered in gravy with butter and sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 25% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,287 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Lettuce with Gravy

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash and rinse the fresh lettuce.

  2. Mince the lettuce and place it in a saucepan with the gravy.

Cook and season

  1. Stew for 10 minutes.

  2. Add a bit of butter and a little coarse sea salt to taste.

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. Lettuce + buttertop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,287 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Fresh lettuce
Forms the main vegetable body of the dish and softens as it stews.
Good gravy
Provides the liquid and savory base that the lettuce cooks in.
Butter
Adds richness and a smooth, rounded flavor at the end.

“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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