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Jerusalem Artichokes

Boiled Jerusalem artichokes served with butter or optional Italienne or Béchamel sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Jerusalem artichoke and sauce work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 97 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Jerusalem Artichokes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Peel the Jerusalem artichokes neatly.

Cook and serve

  1. Boil them gently in salted water until tender.

  2. Drain and place them on a serving dish.

  3. Serve with plain butter sauce or your choice of Italienne or Béchamel sauce.

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. Jerusalem artichoke + saucetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together97 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Butter + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Jerusalem artichoke + buttertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together267 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl decanoate (grape, waxy).

Butter and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,338 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

Jerusalem artichokes
Provide the starchy, tender vegetable that forms the main body of the dish.
Butter
Adds richness and a smooth fat coating when served as a plain sauce.

The step that matters

Boil gently until tender. Boiling vigorously can break the tubers apart and leave the outside mushy before the centre is cooked. A gentle simmer cooks them evenly and keeps their shape intact.

Swap the jerusalem artichoke

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, sauce):

  1. Shallotfits about as well
  2. Jerusalem artichokethe original
  3. Mustardfits about as well
  4. Onionfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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