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To Pickle Artichoke Bottoms

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Allspice and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,874 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

To Pickle Artichoke Bottoms

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the artichokes until the leaves and choke can be removed.

  2. Trim the artichokes and soak them in a mixture of salt and water.

  3. Boil enough vinegar to cover the artichokes for five minutes with allspice, black pepper, ginger, mace, cloves, shallots, salt, bay leaves, and horseradish.

  4. Drain and dry the artichoke bottoms.

  5. Place the bottoms in jars, add the vinegar mixture, and seal tightly.

  6. To serve, place in a deep plate with some pickle, oil, and mustard mixed.

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. Allspice + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Artichoke + shallottop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together97 recipes

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

  3. Ginger + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,038 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Allspice + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,620 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (artichoke, vinegar, allspice, pepper, ginger, clove, shallot):

  1. Turmericfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Cinnamonfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against artichoke, vinegar, allspice, pepper, ginger, clove, shallot. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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