Skip to main content
Main

Stuffed Artichokes

Stuffed artichokes filled with bread, butter, cream, onion, and egg yolks, then baked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

Why it works: Bread and butter 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 ↓

Stuffed Artichokes

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the artichokes

  1. Trim the tops and ends of the artichokes' leaves with a knife and scissors.

  2. Boil the artichokes in salted water for 15 minutes.

  3. Let them cool.

  4. Remove the hearts and tender leaves.

  5. Chop and crush through a colander, leaving a good thickness for the shell.

Stuff and bake

  1. Mix the chopped hearts with soaked bread, butter, cream, pepper, salt, onion, and egg yolks.

  2. Stuff the mixture back into the artichoke shells.

  3. Bake in a pan for 10 minutes.

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.

Explore the science

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Artichoke + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together738 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Artichoke + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,170 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Artichokes
Provide the edible hearts and the shells that hold the stuffing.
Soaked bread
Adds body to the filling and absorbs moisture so it holds together.
Butter
Adds fat for a rich, soft texture in the filling.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the filling smooth.
Egg yolks
Bind the filling and set on heating to give it a firm, sliceable body.

The step that matters

Bake in a pan for 10 minutes. Egg yolks in the filling set when heated, so baking only until just set keeps the stuffing creamy rather than dry or grainy.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (artichoke, bread, butter, cream, pepper, egg):

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against artichoke, bread, butter, cream, pepper, egg. 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.

More stuffed artichokes recipes

Italian 4 See all 38 →

You might also like

Brown BreadBrown Bread461 recipesWhite BreadWhite Bread80 recipesBread OmeletteBread Omelette60 recipesArtichoke SoupArtichoke Soup55 recipes