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
Sprinkle pickled beets with caraway seed.
Serve on a bed of lettuce.
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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Caraway + lettucetop 13% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together6 recipes
Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
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