Name: Endive with Winter Salad
Ingredients: watercress; celery; 1 small beet; endive; Hygia dressing

Why it works: Watercress and endive share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 45 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Endive with Winter Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

Chop the watercress, celery, and beet finely.

Assemble and serve

Arrange the crisp blanched leaves of endive on a plate.
Top with the chopped mixture.
Serve with Hygia dressing.

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.

Watercress + endivetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together45 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Celery + endivetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together160 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Watercress + celerytop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together167 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Endive: Provides the crisp, slightly bitter leaves that form the base of the salad.
Beet: Adds earthy sweetness and colour to the chopped topping.
Celery: Adds crunch and fresh moisture to the chopped topping.
Watercress: Adds a peppery bite and freshness to the chopped topping.