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Cooked Spinach or Yellow Dock or Mustard Greens or Dandelion Leaves

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Dock and dandelion share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Cooked Spinach or Yellow Dock or Mustard Greens or Dandelion Leaves

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook the spinach, yellow dock, mustard greens, or dandelion leaves until tender.

  2. Serve with rye or wheat bread and butter.

  3. Add eggs or bacon if desired.

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. Dock + dandeliontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together25 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Spinach + dandeliontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Rye + wheattop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together404 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Mustard + dandeliontop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together30 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Spinach + mustardtop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together503 recipes

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

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

Swap the dock

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (spinach, mustard, dandelion, rye, bread, wheat, butter):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Garlicfits better
  4. Dockthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against spinach, mustard, dandelion, rye, bread, wheat, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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