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Buttermilk and Chive Salad Dressing

"This is great on potato salad! Adjust the seasonings to suite your taste, and use less mayonnaise if you'd like a thinner dressing."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and chive work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and 467 recipes mention both. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

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8 servings
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Sugar + chivetop 19% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together467 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Buttermilk + chivetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together83 recipes

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

  3. Buttermilk + sugartop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,973 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Pepper + chivetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,885 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Buttermilk + peppertop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together542 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs