Why it works: Cardoon and sauce work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 48 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Cardoons, Boiled
Ingredients
Directions
Cut the cardoon stalks into 3-inch lengths.
Remove the prickles from the stalks.
Cover the cardoons with salted boiling water and cook until tender.
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.
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Cardoon + saucetop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together48 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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