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Palestine Soup

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Palestine Soup

Why it works: Jerusalem artichoke and butter work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 267 recipes. Both carry ethyl decanoate, which smells grape, waxy. The science ↓

Palestine Soup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pare and slice the Jerusalem artichokes.

  2. Soak them in a pan of water, then drain.

  3. Place the artichokes in a 3-quart stewpan with a little butter.

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 + buttertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together267 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl decanoate (grape, waxy).

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

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