Name: Mashed Artichokes
Ingredients: artichokes; milk or cream; white sauce

Why it works: Artichoke and sauce work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 462 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Mashed Artichokes

Ingredients

artichokes
milk or cream
white sauce

Directions

Boil the artichokes until tender.
Press the water out of the artichokes thoroughly.
Dry the artichokes well before adding milk or cream.
Mix in milk or cream and stir until smooth.
For extra flavor, substitute with good white 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.

Artichoke + saucetop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together462 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Artichoke + milktop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together218 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Milk + saucetop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,759 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).