Name: Fried Artichokes
Ingredients: artichokes; eggs; fine bread crumbs

Why it works: Egg and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Fried Artichokes

Ingredients

artichokes
eggs
fine bread crumbs

Directions

Boil the artichokes for 8 to 10 minutes.
Lift them out and drain on a sieve; let them cool.
Dip the cooled artichokes into beaten eggs.
Cover the artichokes with fine bread crumbs.
Fry in hot oil until light brown.
Drain and pile in a hot dish; serve quickly.

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.

Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Artichoke + breadtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together175 recipes

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

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together633 recipes

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