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A Nice Wav to Cook Cabbage

A cabbage dish simmered in sweet milk, butter, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Hatfield (Mass.). Congregational Church · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 26,984 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

A Nice Wav to Cook Cabbage

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the cabbage

  1. With a sharp knife cut a small cabbage into small pieces.

  2. Boil one hour in salted water.

  3. Drain through a colander.

Make the sauce and serve

  1. Take one cup sweet milk, a piece of butter the size of an egg, a little salt.

  2. Heat hot, but do not boil.

  3. Put the cabbage into this mixture and let stand on stove until well warmed through.

  4. Dish, sprinkle with pepper, send to the table hot.

  5. Onions cooked the same way are equally nice.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

155Calories
8 gProtein
8 gFat
14 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 2 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Hatfield (Mass.). Congregational Church. 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. See the original page.

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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. Milk + peppertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together26,984 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

What each ingredient does

Sweet milk
Forms the creamy sauce that coats and warms the cabbage.
Butter (in the method)
Adds richness and fat, giving the milk sauce a smoother, silkier texture.
Cabbage (in the method)
Forms the main body of the dish, becoming tender after boiling.

The step that matters

Heat the milk without boiling. Milk that boils can scorch on the bottom and curdle or separate, so heating it gently keeps the sauce smooth before the cabbage is added.

“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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