Name: Cabbage-Tree Worms
Ingredients: cabbage-tree worms; butter; salt

Why it works: Cabbage and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,397 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Cabbage-Tree Worms

Ingredients

cabbage-tree worms
butter
salt

Directions

Fry the cabbage-tree worms in a pan with a small amount of butter and salt.
Alternatively, skewer the worms on a wooden stick and roast them over a fire.

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.

Cabbage + buttertop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,397 recipes

Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Cabbage-tree worms: Serve as the main ingredient, providing the dish's protein and flavour.
Butter: Adds fat for frying, carrying flavour and promoting light browning in the pan.

“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.