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Artichokes, Jerusalem, Fried in Batter

Fried Jerusalem artichokes coated in batter, served hot with coarse sea salt and fried parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Jerusalem artichoke and parsley share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 70 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Artichokes, Jerusalem, Fried in Batter

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash, peel, and cut the Jerusalem artichokes into pieces the size of an eighth of an orange.

  2. Boil the artichokes in water with 1 tablespoon of vinegar until tender.

Batter and fry

  1. Drain the artichokes and dip each piece into the frying batter.

  2. Heat lard in a pan until boiling, then fry the artichokes until they are a nice light brown.

  3. Sprinkle with coarse sea salt and serve very hot with fried parsley.

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 + parsleytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together70 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Vinegar + parsleytop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,477 recipes

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

  3. Jerusalem artichoke + vinegartop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together40 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Jerusalem artichokes
Provide the starchy, tender interior that becomes soft under the crisp coating.
Frying batter
Forms a coating that crisps and browns in hot fat, protecting the artichoke inside.
Lard
Conducts heat for frying and gives the coating its browning and rich flavour.

The step that matters

Heating the lard before frying. If the fat is not hot enough, the batter absorbs oil and turns greasy instead of crisping. Hot fat sets the coating quickly, so it browns lightly and stays crisp.

Swap the jerusalem artichoke

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vinegar, parsley):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Cucumberfits better
  4. Jerusalem artichokethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against vinegar, parsley. 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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