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Artichokes Boiled

Boiled artichokes served with melted butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Artichoke and butter work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 893 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Artichokes Boiled

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim the tops and bottoms of the artichokes, tossing them in cold water as you go.

  2. Boil plenty of water in a large pot.

Cook

  1. Add the artichokes and a handful of coarse sea salt to the boiling water.

  2. Cook until tender, then drain the water.

Serve

  1. Serve the artichokes on a dish with melted 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. Artichoke + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together893 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

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

What each ingredient does

Artichokes
The main vegetable; the tender leaf bases and heart are the part eaten after boiling.
Melted butter
Adds fat and richness that complements the mild, slightly sweet flavor of the cooked artichoke.

The step that matters

Cook until tender. Artichoke tenderness varies with size, so the cook must check the leaf bases with a knife or fork. Undercooked artichokes stay tough and fibrous, while overcooked ones turn soft and mushy.

“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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