Name: Gouffe's Summer Salad
Ingredients: 1 part celery, diced; 3 parts cucumber, peeled and finely sliced

Why it works: Celery and cucumber are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,745 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Gouffe's Summer Salad

Ingredients

1 part celery, diced
3 parts cucumber, peeled and finely sliced

Directions

Dice the celery into small pieces.
Peel and finely slice the cucumber.
Mix the diced celery with the sliced cucumber.

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.

Celery + cucumbertop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,745 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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Gouffe's Summer Salad