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Fried Artichokes

Fried artichokes are boiled, halved, battered with flour, egg, milk, and fried in hot lard.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Artichoke and flour match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 466 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Fried Artichokes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the artichokes in salted water until tender.

  2. Cut the artichokes in half.

Batter and fry

  1. In a bowl, mix flour, a little salt, yolk of egg, and enough milk to make a batter.

  2. Dip the artichoke halves in the batter.

  3. Fry the battered artichokes in hot lard until 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.

  1. Artichoke + flourtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together466 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Artichoke + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together633 recipes

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

Flour and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Artichokes
Main ingredient that becomes tender through boiling and is then coated and fried.
Flour
Forms the body of the batter that coats the artichokes.
Yolk of egg
Adds richness and helps bind the batter to the artichokes.
Milk
Thins the flour and yolk into a batter that coats evenly.
Hot lard
Frying fat that cooks the batter and browns its surface.

The step that matters

Fry in hot lard until brown. If the lard is not hot enough, the batter absorbs more fat and turns greasy instead of crisp. Frying at a steady high heat sets the coating quickly and gives even browning.

“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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