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Artichoke Bottoms Filled with French Beans

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Nutmeg and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,686 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Artichoke Bottoms Filled with French Beans

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Trim the bottoms of the artichokes and cut off the tips of the leaves.

  2. Boil the artichokes in salted water for 45 minutes.

  3. Drain them on a sieve and soak in cold water for 5 minutes.

  4. Remove the fibrous portion from the inside using the handle of a tablespoon.

  5. Return the artichokes to hot water for a few minutes to warm through.

  6. Drain upside down on a cloth to absorb moisture.

  7. Pour butter sauce inside each artichoke and serve with extra sauce on the side.

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. Nutmeg + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,686 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Artichoke + lemontop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together636 recipes

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

  3. Artichoke + nutmegtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together156 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Nutmeg + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (artichoke, butter, sauce, flour, nutmeg, clove):

  1. Raisinfits about as well
  2. Avocadofits about as well
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Limefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against artichoke, butter, sauce, flour, nutmeg, clove. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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