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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Fennel and coriander match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 426 recipes. Both carry myristicin, which smells spice, warm. The science ↓

Artichokes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. To prepare artichokes, steep the seeds in a mixture of honey and milk for mild flavor.

  2. Eat raw artichokes with chopped hard boiled eggs, garum, and oil.

  3. For a sharper sauce, mix green mint, rue, Greek fennel, coriander, pepper, alisander, honey, garum, and oil.

  4. Boil artichokes and serve with cummin, pepper, gravy, and oil.

  5. To preserve, half cook artichokes, separate the leaves, and place the fleshy part in cold water to firm up.

  6. Dry the artichokes on hurdles and bake them four times in the oven after removing bread.

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. Fennel + coriandertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together426 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  2. Artichoke + fenneltop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together35 recipes

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

  3. Mint + coriandertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together940 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Coriander + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,949 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

  5. Artichoke + minttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together51 recipes

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

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

Swap the mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (artichoke, egg, fennel, coriander, pepper, honey):

  1. Tarragonfits better
  2. Turmericfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against artichoke, egg, fennel, coriander, pepper, honey. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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