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Jehusalem Artichokes with White Sauce

Jerusalem artichokes served with a white sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Jerusalem artichoke and sauce work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 97 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Jehusalem Artichokes with White Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Peel and cut the Jerusalem artichokes into pear shapes.

  2. Trim the bottoms so they can stand upright in the dish.

Cook

  1. Boil the artichokes in salted water until tender.

  2. Prepare 1 pint of white 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.

  1. Jerusalem artichoke + saucetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together97 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Brussels sprouts + saucetop 45% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5 recipes
  3. Jerusalem artichoke + brussels sproutstop 75% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together0 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

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

What each ingredient does

Jerusalem artichokes
Provide the main body of the dish, becoming tender and mild when boiled.
White sauce
Adds creamy moisture and richness that coats the artichokes.

Swap the brussels sprouts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (jerusalem artichoke, sauce):

  1. Kalefits better
  2. Turnipfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Brussels sproutsthe original

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

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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