Artichoke Stock

[flit]

I ate some artichokes (mine all mine... Brad doesn't like them) and decided to try out making artichoke stock from the trimmed leaves. It always seems a waste to put them into the compost pile without extracting the artichoke goodness out of them first. I didn't see a LOT of information about making them into stock, though there's an artichoke

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[colubra]

I wonder if cream of artichoke soup would have the sweet overwhelm the savory...

[flit]

I had a cream-based oyster and artichoke soup in New Orleans which was both sweet and savory, but cream and even oysters have some sweetness. I can't recall if it produced the sweet aftertaste effect. I do recall really liking it.

I think it would be hard to have the sweet overwhelm the savory as the effect is more noticeable when eating something else afterwards, but it might be *really* interesting to then follow an artichoke soup with a course designed to enhance that, like a bland dish. Would it be sufficient to sweeten an unsweetened custard, for instance?