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Jerusalem Artichokes, a L’lTALIENNE

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Jerusalem Artichokes, a L’lTALIENNE

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Turn the artichokes into fancy shapes.

  2. Arrange them in a deep sauté pan coated with butter.

  3. Season with mignonette pepper, nutmeg, coarse sea salt, and lemon juice.

  4. Moisten with a little consommé.

  5. Cover and simmer gently over low heat for about 30 minutes until they turn deep yellow.

  6. Roll them in their glaze, plate them, and pour Italian sauce around before serving.

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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Jerusalem artichoke + nutmegtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together48 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Nutmeg + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Jerusalem artichoke + lemontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together72 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Pepper + nutmegtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

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

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

Swap the jerusalem artichoke

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, pepper, nutmeg, lemon):

  1. Spinachfits about as well
  2. Shallotfits about as well
  3. Capsicumfits about as well
  4. Jerusalem artichokethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, pepper, nutmeg, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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