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To Prevent the Smell of Boiled Cabbage

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and cabbage work together. They rank in the top 21% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 380 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

To Prevent the Smell of Boiled Cabbage

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Tie the piece of bread in a cloth.

  2. Place the tied bread on top of the boiling cabbage.

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. Bread + cabbagetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together380 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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