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Artichoke Salad

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Jerusalem artichoke and mustard share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 12 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Artichoke Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare the artichokes by cleaning them thoroughly.

  2. If using Globe artichokes, remove the inedible parts and slice the edible parts.

  3. Dress the artichokes with melted butter or oil.

  4. Season with salt, pepper, mustard, and vinegar to taste.

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. Jerusalem artichoke + mustardtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together12 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Mustard + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Pepper + mustardtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

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

  4. Jerusalem artichoke + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together210 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Pepper + vinegartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,814 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, mustard, vinegar):

  1. Horseradishfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Jerusalem artichokethe original

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

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