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Cabbage with Potatoes, Flamande

A stew of cabbage and potatoes simmered with veal gravy, seasoned with salt and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cabbage and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,081 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Cabbage with Potatoes, Flamande

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the cabbage

  1. Cook the cabbage as in recipe No. 301.

  2. Drain the cabbage in a colander.

  3. Chop the cabbage finely.

Make the stew

  1. Place the chopped cabbage in a saucepan.

  2. Add ¼ cup of mashed potatoes and mix well.

  3. Season with salt and pepper.

  4. Add a few spoonfuls of thickened veal gravy.

  5. Let it simmer for 30 minutes.

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. Cabbage + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,081 recipes

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

  2. Cabbage + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together275 recipes

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

  3. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + vealtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,049 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Potato + vealtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together343 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Cabbage
Forms the bulk of the stew and provides its main texture and mild sweetness as it cooks.
Mashed potatoes
Thickens the stew and adds body, helping it cling together as it simmers.
Veal gravy
Adds savory depth and moisture to the stew.

The step that matters

Let it simmer for 30 minutes. A gentle simmer lets the cabbage soften fully and the potatoes and gravy blend into a cohesive stew. Boiling hard can break down the potatoes too much and make the texture gluey.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cabbage, pepper, veal):

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Cauliflowerfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cabbage, pepper, veal. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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