Name: Pickled Caulilower or Red Cabbage
Ingredients: 4 ounce alum; a pinch of alum; 6 aveeks; four mornirsgs in succession; black pepper; vinegar; salt

Why it works: Pepper and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,814 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Pickled Caulilower or Red Cabbage

Ingredients

Directions

Put in strong salt and water 4 days; take out and drain; boil vincgai'. whole black pepper and celery seed to taste; pour on hot ever pickles. Good for use in 6 Aveeks. better in 3 months.
]\rrs. A. Gerould.
CUCUMBER PICKLES NO. 1.
5 (jts. water. 1 pt. salt; scald and ])<)ur over cucuiubers. and let stand tb.ree days; then pour (if[; make a fresh brine as before and repeat once more. On the ninth day take y^ water a/id ^^ vinegar- to this add ^4 ounce alum; scald and pour over; let stand six days; then pour off; prepare vinegar, spices, red or green peppers to make hot, and sugar to taste; be sure that your vinegar is the best, and tlicy will keep in an open crock two years. ^frs. Fred Darling.
PICKLED CUCUMBERS NO. 2.
Take small cucumbers; place in jar; pour (iver vhem lioiling water; add ejumgh salt to season nicely; repeat boili)ig this water
242 THE WARREN COOK BOOK.
for four mornirsgs in succession, the fourth mornini? add a pinch of alum; the lifth morning take vinegar enough to cover pii^kles; put in porcelain kettle with a little sugar and spices tied m bag; let come to a boil; drain cucumbers out of salt water and place in stone jar and pour over them boiling vinegar; prepare cucumbers as above till jar is filled; these will keep all winter. Good idea to put horse- radish in vinegar. Mrs. Dwight Cowan.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

9Calories

0 gProtein

0 gFat

2 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 3 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

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

By Warren, Pa. Presbyterian church. Second auxiliary missionary society. [from old catalog]. 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.

Pepper + vinegartop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,814 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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Pickled Caulilower or Red Cabbage