Name: Green Corn Salad
Ingredients: 2 oz. green corn, sliced off cob; 1 oz. pine kernels, flaked; 1 oz. olive oil; Lettuce leaves for serving

Why it works: Pine and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,062 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Green Corn Salad

Ingredients

2 oz. green corn, sliced off cob
1 oz. pine kernels, flaked
1 oz. olive oil
Lettuce leaves for serving

Directions

Prepare

Grate the cob of the corn.

Make the salad

In a bowl, combine the sliced corn, grated cob, flaked pine kernels, and olive oil. Stir well to mix all ingredients.
Serve the salad on lettuce leaves.

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.

Pine + olivetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,062 recipes

Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).
Olive + lettucetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,580 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).
Pine + lettucetop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together42 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Corn + lettucetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together270 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Corn + olivetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,502 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).