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Endive Salad, French Style

A salad of endives dressed with garlic, bread crust, salt, pepper, vinegar, and olive oil.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Garlic and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 25,665 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Endive Salad, French Style

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash and trim the endives, then separate the leaves.

  2. Drain the leaves and place them in a salad bowl.

Dress and serve

  1. Rub the garlic on the bread crust pieces and add them to the salad.

  2. Season with salt, pepper, vinegar, and olive oil.

  3. Mix gently and dress the salad only when ready to serve.

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.

Explore the science

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. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  2. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Endive + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together209 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Endive + clovetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together59 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Endive + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together83 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

Endives
Provide the crisp, slightly bitter leaves that form the body of the salad.
Garlic
Rubbed onto the bread, it adds aroma to the salad.
Bread crust
Absorbs the dressing and adds a soft, flavourful bite to the salad.
Olive oil
Carries flavour and coats the leaves, giving the dressing richness.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that brightens the dressing and balances the oil.

The step that matters

Dress the salad only when ready to serve. Salt and acid draw water out of delicate leaves, so dressing early makes endive limp and soggy. Adding it at the last moment keeps the leaves crisp.

Swap the endive

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (clove, garlic, bread, pepper, vinegar, olive):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Eggplantfits better
  4. Endivethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against clove, garlic, bread, pepper, vinegar, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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