Name: Corn Salad
Ingredients: Corn salad (lamb's lettuce); Celery

Why it works: Corn salad and lettuce share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Corn Salad

Ingredients

Corn salad (lamb's lettuce)
Celery

Directions

Wash the corn salad and celery thoroughly.
Chop the celery into small pieces.
Combine the corn salad and chopped celery in a bowl.
Toss gently to mix.
Serve fresh as a 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.

Corn salad + lettucetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together11 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Lettuce + celerytop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together2,033 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Corn salad + celerytop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together9 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Lamb + lettucetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together188 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Lamb + celerytop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together371 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).