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Pickled Beet Salad

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Caraway and lettuce share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Pickled Beet Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Sprinkle pickled beets with caraway seed.

  2. Serve on a bed of lettuce.

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. Caraway + lettucetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6 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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