Name: Stuffed Artichokes
Ingredients: cooked artichoke bottoms; mashed potatoes; cheese; cheese sauce

Why it works: Artichoke and potato work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 80 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Stuffed Artichokes

Ingredients

cooked artichoke bottoms
mashed potatoes
cheese
cheese sauce

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).
Fill the cooked artichoke bottoms with mashed potatoes flavored with cheese.
Place the stuffed artichokes in the oven and brown them.
Serve the stuffed artichokes with cheese sauce.

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.

Artichoke + potatotop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together80 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Potato + cheesetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together959 recipes

Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).
Artichoke + saucetop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together462 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Cheese + saucetop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,987 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Artichoke + cheesetop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together161 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).