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Cold Garniture, Jardiniere

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Artichoke and asparagus match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 165 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Cold Garniture, Jardiniere

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook the cauliflower, artichoke bottoms, mushrooms, asparagus tops, string beans, and carrots separately until tender.

  2. Drain the vegetables and season them with salt, pepper, oil, and vinegar.

  3. Glaze the seasoned vegetables with Aspic jelly.

  4. Arrange the vegetables in bunches, alternating the colors.

  5. Groove the tops of the mushrooms in crescent shapes for a decorative touch.

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 + asparagustop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together165 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Cauliflower + artichoketop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together70 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Cauliflower + asparagustop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together163 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Asparagus + beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together292 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Artichoke + beanstop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together154 recipes

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

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cauliflower, artichoke, mushroom, asparagus, beans, pepper, vinegar):

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Lettucefits better
  4. Carrotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cauliflower, artichoke, mushroom, asparagus, beans, pepper, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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