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Jerusalem Artichokes Another Way

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Jerusalem artichoke and mustard share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Jerusalem Artichokes Another Way

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pare and cut the Jerusalem artichokes into shapes like haricots.

  2. Fry them in boiling hot lard until light brown.

  3. Drain them well.

  4. In a stewpan, combine the fried artichokes with a little strong sauce, vinegar, and mustard.

  5. Serve with fried bread around the dish.

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 + mustardtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Vinegar + mustardtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Jerusalem artichoke + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together51 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl decanoate (grape, waxy).

  4. Sauce + mustardtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,120 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the jerusalem artichoke

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

  1. Horseradishfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Lettucefits better
  4. Jerusalem artichokethe original

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

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