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Jerusalem Artichokes, a L’lTALIEXNE

Jerusalem artichokes sautéed with butter, seasoned with mignonette pepper, nutmeg, salt, lemon juice, and consomme, then glazed and served with Italian sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Jerusalem Artichokes, a L’lTALIEXNE

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and cook

  1. Shape the Jerusalem artichokes into fancy forms.

  2. Arrange them in a deep sauté pan coated with butter.

  3. Season with mignonette pepper, nutmeg, coarse sea salt, and lemon juice.

  4. Add a little consomme to moisten.

  5. Cover and simmer gently over low heat for about 30 minutes until they turn deep yellow.

Glaze and serve

  1. Glaze them in the pan, then serve with Italian sauce poured around.

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 + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Jerusalem artichoke + nutmegtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together48 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Nutmeg + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Jerusalem artichoke + lemontop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together72 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Pepper + nutmegtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together13,015 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Jerusalem artichokes
Form the dish; their starchy flesh turns tender and sweet when simmered.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the artichokes take on a golden glaze.
Consomme
Provides moisture so the artichokes steam and do not dry out.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavour and balances the sweetness.

The step that matters

Simmering gently over low heat. Gentle heat with a lid lets the artichokes cook through and color evenly. Too much heat can scorch the butter and dry the pan before the flesh is tender.

Swap the jerusalem artichoke

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, pepper, nutmeg, lemon, sauce):

  1. Shallotfits about as well
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Jerusalem artichokethe original
  4. Spinachfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, pepper, nutmeg, lemon, sauce. 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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