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Cabbage Boiled with Pork

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and cabbage work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 919 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Cabbage Boiled with Pork

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the pork for 1 hour.

  2. Score the rind in lines or squares and place it in the oven to brown.

  3. Divide the cabbage into four or more parts, keeping the stalk intact.

  4. Boil the cabbage in the water from which the pork was taken for 45 minutes.

  5. Drain the cabbage thoroughly without breaking it.

  6. Cut off the stalks and serve the cabbage rounded side up on a platter with the pork in the center.

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. Pork + cabbagetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together919 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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