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Cherry Salad

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Filbert and lettuce work together. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Cherry Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Seed the California canned cherries.

  2. Add filberts to the cherries.

  3. Serve the mixture on lettuce leaves.

  4. Top the cherries with a teaspoon of mayonnaise dressing.

  5. Serve wafers alongside the salad.

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.

  1. Filbert + lettucetop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

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