Name: Tomato and Boiled Fowl Salad
Ingredients: 200 g celery; 2 tablespoons French dressing; 1 small bottle Wesson oil; 100 g cottage cheese; 1 tablespoon currant jelly; 100 g sandwiches (triangles); 100 g mashed potatoes; 100 g spinach; 2 slices hominy bread; 1 ball oleomargarine; 1 slice cherry pie (rice and barley flour pastry)

Why it works: Potato and spinach work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 646 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

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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.

Potato + spinachtop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together646 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
Celery + spinachtop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together616 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).
Celery + potatotop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,047 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Potato + ricetop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together851 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).
Celery + ricetop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,169 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (celery, cottage cheese, potato, spinach, bread, cherry, rice):

Avocadofits better
Lemonfits better
Limefits better
Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against celery, cottage cheese, potato, spinach, bread, cherry, rice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

Tomato and Boiled Fowl Salad