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Artichoke Salad

A salad of boiled potatoes and artichokes seasoned with pepper, salt, oil, vinegar, served with wholemeal bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and artichoke work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 80 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Artichoke Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the potatoes and artichokes separately until tender.

  2. Cut the potatoes and artichokes into slices.

Assemble and serve

  1. Mix the slices together in a bowl.

  2. Add pepper, coarse sea salt, oil, and vinegar to taste.

  3. Serve with Allinson wholemeal bread.

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. Potato + artichoketop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together80 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Pepper + vinegartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Artichoke + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together175 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Provide the starchy body of the salad, holding their shape after boiling and slicing.
Artichokes
Add a tender, slightly nutty texture and a distinctive vegetable flavour to the salad.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that brightens the flavour and balances the oil.
Oil
Adds fat and richness, carrying flavour across the potatoes and artichokes.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (artichoke, pepper, vinegar, bread):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against artichoke, pepper, vinegar, bread. 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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