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Olives Farced with Anchovies. {Olives Farcies Aux Anchois.}

Olives stuffed with anchovy puree served on shredded lettuce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,580 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Olives Farced with Anchovies. {Olives Farcies Aux Anchois.}

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Turn the olives and fill them with anchovy puree.

Serve

  1. Dish them up on a little shredded lettuce on small plates or paper cases.

  2. Serve about six olives for each portion.

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. Olive + lettucetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,580 recipes

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

  2. Olive + anchovytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together880 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanol (green, fruity).

  3. Anchovy + lettucetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together185 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

Olives
Provide the main body and briny flavor of each bite.
Anchovy puree
Adds salty, savory depth that fills the olive cavity.

Swap the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, anchovy):

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Lettucethe original
  4. Spinachfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, anchovy. 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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