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Artichoke Salad

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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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 ↓

Artichoke Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the potatoes and artichokes separately until tender.

  2. Slice the boiled potatoes and artichokes.

  3. In a bowl, mix the sliced potatoes and artichokes.

  4. Add pepper, coarse sea salt, olive oil, and vinegar to the mixture.

  5. Serve with Allinson wholemeal bread.

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 + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together745 recipes

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

  2. Potato + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,458 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Potato + artichoketop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together80 recipes

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

  4. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  5. Olive + breadtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (artichoke, pepper, olive, vinegar, bread):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Potatothe original

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

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