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Artichoke Salad

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Artichoke and beetroot share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 50 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Artichoke Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the Japanese artichokes for 5 minutes.

  2. Let them cool and place in a salad bowl.

  3. Add slices of cold boiled beetroot and celery.

  4. Cover with mayonnaise sauce.

  5. Garnish with additional beetroot and celery.

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 + beetroottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together50 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Beetroot + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together652 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Artichoke + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together183 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Artichoke + saucetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together462 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Beetroot + saucetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together374 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the celery

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (artichoke, beetroot, sauce):

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Tarragonfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against artichoke, beetroot, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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