Name: Cabbage Salad with Pimentos
Ingredients: cabbage; mayonnaise made with Ehmann olive oil; halved English walnuts; strips of pimentos

Why it works: Olive and walnut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,087 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Cabbage Salad with Pimentos

Ingredients

cabbage
mayonnaise made with Ehmann olive oil
halved English walnuts
strips of pimentos

Directions

Chop the cabbage and mix it with mayonnaise made from Ehmann olive oil.
Lightly pile the mixture on a dish.
Arrange halved English walnuts over the salad and place strips of pimentos around the edge.

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.

Olive + walnuttop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,087 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Cabbage + walnuttop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together133 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).
Cabbage + olivetop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together685 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).