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Fonds D' Articliauts a LA Mayonnaise

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Tarragon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,563 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Fonds D' Articliauts a LA Mayonnaise

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak the artichokes in cold water, then drain them.

  2. Boil the artichokes in water; once it boils, reduce to a simmer for 40-50 minutes.

  3. Drain the artichokes and let them cool.

  4. Quarter each artichoke lengthwise and remove the choke with a teaspoon or knife.

  5. Arrange the artichokes on a dish; season with pepper, salt, oil, chilli vinegar, and tarragon vinegar.

  6. Dust with minced parsley, onion or shallot, and mignonette pepper.

  7. Serve cold with plain or tomato mayonnaise.

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. Tarragon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Artichoke + tarragontop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together60 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  4. Artichoke + parsleytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together524 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + tarragontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Swap the onion

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

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Lettucefits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against artichoke, pepper, vinegar, tarragon, parsley, tomato. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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