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Artichokes boiled and simmered in veal stock, finished with cayenne, salt, and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Artichoke and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,170 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Artichokes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the artichokes in water for 10 minutes.

  2. Simmer the veal stock for 15 to 20 minutes.

Make the sauce

  1. Add the additional stock, cayenne, and salt; cook for 2 to 3 minutes.

  2. Stir in the boiling cream before serving.

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. Artichoke + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,170 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Veal + peppertop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,049 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Artichoke + creamtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together335 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Artichoke + vealtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together272 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  5. Pepper + creamtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together21,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Pepper and cream barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 21,449 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

What each ingredient does

Artichokes
Form the main body of the dish and provide its tender, vegetal texture.
Veal stock
Builds the savory, rich base of the sauce.
Boiling cream
Adds fat and body, giving the sauce a smooth, creamy texture.

The step that matters

Stir in the boiling cream before serving. Adding very hot cream at the end thickens and enriches the sauce without giving it time to curdle or reduce too far. Keeping the sauce just below a simmer once the cream is in helps it stay smooth and glossy.

“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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