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Scalloped Salsifi or Jerusalem Artichokes

A baked dish of boiled Jerusalem artichokes tossed in butter, seasoned, topped with breadcrumbs, and baked until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Jerusalem artichoke and pepper work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 210 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Scalloped Salsifi or Jerusalem Artichokes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the vegetables

  1. Boil the salsifi or Jerusalem artichokes until cooked.

  2. Cut the vegetables into pieces the size of an oyster.

Bake and serve

  1. Melt the butter in a pan.

  2. Add the cut vegetables, season with salt and pepper, and toss gently.

  3. Transfer the mixture to a baking dish.

  4. Sprinkle breadcrumbs on top.

  5. Bake until golden brown.

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 + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together210 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Butter + jerusalem artichoketop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together267 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl decanoate (grape, waxy).

  3. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Salsifi or jerusalem artichokes
Provide the main vegetable body and mild, earthy flavor of the dish.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the vegetables brown lightly in the oven.
Breadcrumbs
Form a crisp, golden topping that browns during baking.

Swap the jerusalem artichoke

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Jerusalem artichokethe original

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

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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