Name: Ai'ticlioke Scallops
Ingredients: artichokes; salt; pepper; ½ cup thick cream; fine bread crumbs; butter

Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Ai'ticlioke Scallops

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the artichokes

Boil the artichokes until tender.
Once cooled, strip the leaves and scrape off the pulp with a knife.
Extract the 'chokes' and combine the bottoms with the leaf pulp.

Make the filling

Mash the mixture with a fork, then season with salt and pepper.
Mix in the thick cream and stir well.

Bake and serve

Butter silver plated coquille shells and fill them with the artichoke mixture.
Dust the surface with bread crumbs and dot with small pieces of butter.
Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F (175°C) until hot and golden brown.
Serve on a napkin.

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.

Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,232 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together41,516 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Artichoke + peppertop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,170 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Artichoke + breadtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together175 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Artichoke + buttertop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together893 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Artichokes: Provide the main body and flavour of the filling.
Thick cream: Adds moisture and richness, giving the filling a smooth, creamy texture.
Butter: Adds fat for richness and helps the crumb topping brown in the oven.
Fine bread crumbs: Form a crisp, golden topping on the surface when baked.

“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.