Name: Artichokes with Mayonnaise
Ingredients: artichoke hearts; mayonnaise dressing; chopped parsley; grated onion; shredded pimento

Why it works: Artichoke and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 524 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Artichokes with Mayonnaise

Ingredients

Directions

Boil the artichoke hearts until tender.
Serve with mayonnaise dressing mixed with chopped parsley, grated onion, and shredded pimento.

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 + parsleytop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together524 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).
Parsley + oniontop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together25,843 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Artichoke + oniontop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together738 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).