Name: Lettuce Salad
Ingredients: Lettuce; French dressing; Fruits; Starchy foods; Other vegetables; Cheese; Eggs; Nuts; Legumes

Why it works: Lettuce and nuts work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 174 recipes. Both carry 2-nonanone, which smells fruity, floral. The science ↓

Lettuce Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Keep lettuce in a cool, dry place.
Do not leave lettuce in water for more than 15 minutes.
Serve lettuce alone with French dressing or combine with fruits, starchy foods, or other vegetables.
Add cheese, eggs, nuts, or legumes as 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.

Lettuce + nutstop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together174 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).
Lettuce + cheesetop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together614 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Cheese + nutstop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together101 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl decanoate (grape, waxy).
Egg + nutstop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,624 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Cheese + eggtop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,253 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).