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Pickled Artichokes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Clove and allspice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,874 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Pickled Artichokes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the artichokes and soak them in a strong saltwater solution for four to five days.

  2. Remove the artichokes, rinse them in fresh water, and dry them thoroughly.

  3. Place the artichokes in jars and add cloves, allspice, and mustard seed.

  4. Cover the artichokes with cold vinegar and seal the jars tightly.

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. Clove + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Artichoke + mustardtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together116 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Allspice + mustardtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,928 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  4. Artichoke + clovetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together175 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Mustard + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (artichoke, allspice, mustard, vinegar):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Thymefits about as well
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against artichoke, allspice, mustard, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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