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Jerusalem Artichokes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Jerusalem Artichokes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Peel the Jerusalem artichokes and place them in cold water to maintain color.

  2. Cook in boiling water for 20 to 30 minutes until tender.

  3. Serve with white sauce mixed with chopped parsley.

  4. Alternatively, mash the cooked artichokes and mix in butter, pepper, and salt.

  5. They can also be baked alongside roast mutton.

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

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

  2. Jerusalem artichoke + parsleytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together70 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Jerusalem artichoke + saucetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together97 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Butter + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Butter and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,338 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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, sauce, parsley):

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

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

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