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Jerusalem Artichokes, Ceacovienne

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Jerusalem Artichokes, Ceacovienne

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Peel and boil the Jerusalem artichokes until tender.

  2. Slice the artichokes, making sure not to cut them too thin.

  3. In a flat saucepan, heat clarified butter and lightly fry the sliced artichokes.

  4. In a separate pan, fry fresh bread crumbs and finely chopped onions in clarified butter.

  5. Serve the artichokes topped with the bread crumb and onion mixture.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Jerusalem artichoke + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together140 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Jerusalem artichoke + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl decanoate (grape, waxy).

  4. Butter + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Bread + oniontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,676 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

Swap the jerusalem artichoke

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, bread, onion):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Jerusalem artichokethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, bread, onion. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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