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Artichokes, Stuffed

Stuffed artichokes with ham, mushrooms, parsley, chives, and breadcrumbs, steamed in clear soup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Artichoke and chive share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 59 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Artichokes, Stuffed

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the stuffing

  1. Trim and wash the artichokes, removing the choke from the center.

  2. In a bowl, combine the minced ham, chopped mushrooms, parsley, chives, salt, and pepper.

  3. Add enough bread crumbs to form a paste, moistening with clear soup or hot water.

Stuff and steam

  1. Fill each artichoke with the stuffing and tie them neatly.

  2. Grease a pan with butter, place the artichokes inside, and add 1 pint of clear soup.

  3. Cover the pan and steam the artichokes in their own vapors until tender.

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 + chivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together59 recipes

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

  2. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Parsley + chivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Artichoke + parsleytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together524 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Artichokes
Hold the stuffing and turn tender and edible as they steam.
Ham
Adds savory, salty flavor and substance to the stuffing.
Bread crumbs
Bind the minced filling into a paste that holds its shape.
Mushrooms
Add moisture and earthy flavor to the stuffing.

The step that matters

Steaming until tender. Steaming in a covered pan with a small amount of liquid cooks the artichokes gently. Too little heat or liquid can leave the thick base tough, while overcooking can make the leaves mushy and the stuffing dry.

Swap the chive

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (artichoke, ham, mushroom, parsley, pepper, bread, butter):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Spinachfits about as well
  3. Asparagusfits about as well
  4. Chivethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against artichoke, ham, mushroom, parsley, pepper, bread, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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