Name: Hearts of Artichokes Filled with Russian Caviar
Ingredients: Hearts of artichokes; Russian caviar; hard-boiled eggs; olives stuffed with sweet pepper

Why it works: Artichoke and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 745 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Hearts of Artichokes Filled with Russian Caviar

Ingredients

Hearts of artichokes
Russian caviar
hard-boiled eggs
olives stuffed with sweet pepper

Directions

Fill the hearts of artichokes with Russian caviar.
Add a layer of chopped hard-boiled egg on top.
Place a half olive stuffed with sweet pepper in the center.
Serve on small plates individually.

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 + olivetop 2% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together745 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Artichoke + peppertop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,170 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Olive + peppertop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together30,263 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Caviar + eggtop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together101 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Caviar + olivetop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together61 recipes

Shared aroma: trans,trans-2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).