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Cabbage Sandwiches

A sandwich made with shredded cabbage, whipped cream, nuts, and salt on buttered bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Nuts and bread work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 174 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Cabbage Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, mix the shredded cabbage, whipped cream, chopped nuts, and salt.

  2. Spread the mixture between two slices of buttered bread.

  3. Cut the sandwiches in half and serve.

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. Nuts + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together174 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Cream + nutstop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together886 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  3. Cabbage + breadtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together380 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Cabbage + nutstop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl decanoate (grape, waxy).

  5. Cream + breadtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,789 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Shredded cabbage
Provides the crisp, bulky filling that gives the sandwich its main texture.
Whipped cream
Adds moisture and richness, binding the cabbage into a creamy filling.
Chopped nuts
Contribute crunch and a toasty, nutty flavor against the soft filling.
Buttered bread
Adds fat and softness, and holds the filling together.

Swap the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, nuts, bread):

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Lettucefits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, nuts, bread. 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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