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Cabbage and Apple Salad

A salad of chopped cabbage, tart apples, walnuts, and cream dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cabbage and apple work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 235 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Cabbage and Apple Salad

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a large bowl, combine the chopped cabbage, chopped tart apples, and broken walnut meats.

  2. Mix in the cream dressing until well combined.

  3. Serve immediately.

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 + appletop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together235 recipes

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

  2. Cabbage + walnuttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together133 recipes

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

  3. Walnut + meattop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,035 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Apple + walnuttop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,051 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Walnut + creamtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,982 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

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

What each ingredient does

Cabbage
Provides the crisp, crunchy base of the salad.
Tart apples
Add crisp texture and a bright acidity that balances the rich dressing.
Walnut meats
Add crunch and a toasty, nutty flavour against the soft dressing.
Cream dressing
Coats the vegetables and fruit, adding richness and moisture.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cabbage, walnut, meat, cream):

  1. Avocadofits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cabbage, walnut, meat, cream. 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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