Name: Savoury Fritters
Ingredients: cauliflowers; vegetable marrow; artichokes; Jerusalem artichokes; celery; seakale; asparagus; lemon juice; batter for frying

Why it works: Artichoke and jerusalem artichoke share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 31 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Savoury Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Parboil the vegetables until tender, cutting them into convenient shapes.
For artichokes, trim the leaves and stalk, then cut into quarters, keeping them in lemon juice water to prevent browning.
Dip each piece of vegetable into the batter, ensuring it is well coated.
Fry the coated vegetables in a frying pan until golden brown.

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 + jerusalem artichoketop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together31 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Artichoke + asparagustop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together165 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Cauliflower + artichoketop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together70 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Cauliflower + asparagustop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together163 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Artichoke + lemontop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together636 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).