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Artichokes, Italian Style

Artichokes simmered with salt, pepper, sugar, wine, broth, and white Italian sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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, Italian Style

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare the artichokes as directed in another recipe.

  2. Place the artichokes in a flat saucepan.

Braise and finish

  1. Season with coarse sea salt, black pepper, and sugar.

  2. Add white wine and white broth to the saucepan.

  3. Cook on a brisk fire until the broth reduces to a half glaze.

  4. Stir in the white Italian sauce 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.

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

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Artichoke + white winetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together206 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Sugar + saucetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Pepper + white winetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,433 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Artichoke + saucetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together462 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Artichokes
The main vegetable, cooked gently until tender in the wine and broth.
White wine
Adds acidity and aroma that brighten the artichokes as the liquid reduces.
White broth
Supplies the liquid that cooks the artichokes and reduces to a glaze.
White italian sauce
Stirred in at the end to add richness and flavor to the finished dish.

The step that matters

Reducing the broth to a half glaze. If the heat is too low the liquid will not reduce enough, leaving the artichokes watery; if it reduces too far, the sauce can scorch and turn bitter. Watch the pan closely and stop when the liquid coats the artichokes lightly.

“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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