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Artichokes a LA Proventpale

Artichokes cooked with olive oil, salt, pepper, parsley, and thyme, simmered for two hours.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Parsley and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,057 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓

Artichokes a LA Proventpale

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove all coarse leaves from the artichokes and cut away the bottoms, snipping off the hard parts of the leaves.

  2. Salt and pepper the inside of the artichokes, then pour olive oil freely over them.

Stew

  1. Place the artichokes in a stewpan, pouring oil up to their chokes.

  2. Add a few sprigs of parsley and thyme.

  3. Cover the stewpan with a dish or soup plate filled with water.

  4. Stew the artichokes for two hours over low heat and serve in their own sauce.

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. Parsley + thymetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,057 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Artichoke + parsleytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together524 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Artichoke + thymetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together152 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Tender artichokes
The main vegetable; its tender flesh becomes soft and creamy during slow stewing.
Olive oil
Adds moisture and richness, and carries heat evenly so the artichokes cook gently without drying.
Fresh thyme sprigs
Contributes an herbal aroma that infuses the oil and cooking liquid.

The step that matters

Stew gently over low heat under the water-filled cover. The weighted cover traps steam so the artichokes cook in their own oil and juices. Higher heat can scorch the oil and dry the leaves before the hearts turn tender.

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Parsleythe original
  2. Rosemaryfits about as well
  3. Marjoramfits about as well
  4. Capersfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against artichoke, pepper, olive, thyme. 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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