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Artichokes and Cold Slaw

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Why it works: Artichoke and egg work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 633 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Artichokes and Cold Slaw

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Spread sliced artichoke hearts with cold slaw.

  2. Garnish with the yellow and white of hard-boiled eggs passed through a ricer.

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 + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together633 recipes

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

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