Name: Fonds L'artichaux, Stuffed
Ingredients: canned French artichokes; 1 chicken; 3 egg yolks

Why it works: Artichoke and chicken work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 313 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Fonds L'artichaux, Stuffed

Ingredients

canned French artichokes
1 chicken
3 egg yolks

Directions

Drain the canned artichokes.
Boil the chicken in a small amount of water until fully cooked.
Chop the chicken as finely as possible.
Beat the egg yolks in a bowl.
Combine the chopped chicken with the beaten egg yolks to create the stuffing.

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 + chickentop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together313 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Artichoke + eggtop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together633 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Chicken + eggtop 30% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,991 recipes

Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).