Why it works: Celery and endive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 160 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓
Corn Salad, with Celery
Ingredients
Directions
Cut the celery into small julienne strips.
Prepare the corn as directed in the previous recipe.
Optionally, add endives or watercress to the salad.
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.
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Celery + endivetop 5% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together160 recipes
Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
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Celery + corntop 9% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together920 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).
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Corn + endivetop 13% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together12 recipes
Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the endive
The recipe marks endive as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (celery, corn):
- Carrotfits better
- Capsicumfits better
- Tomatofits better
- Endivethe original
Fit is the average pairing score against celery, corn. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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