Name: Tomato and Artichoke Salad
Ingredients: Tomatoes; Cooked artichoke bottoms (tinned ones will serve); Mayonnaise sauce

Why it works: Tomato and artichoke work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 354 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Tomato and Artichoke Salad

Ingredients

Tomatoes
Cooked artichoke bottoms (tinned ones will serve)
Mayonnaise sauce

Directions

Split the artichoke bottoms in half and slice the tomatoes.
Arrange the artichokes and tomatoes neatly in a salad bowl or dish.
Pour a little mayonnaise sauce over the salad and serve.

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.

Tomato + artichoketop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together354 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Tomato + saucetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together5,469 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Artichoke + saucetop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together462 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).