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Fkied Cabbage

A dish of finely chopped cabbage sautéed with salt pork, cream, and vinegar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cabbage and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,924 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Fkied Cabbage

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the cabbage very finely.

Cook

  1. Fry the salt pork in a hot frying pan until crispy.

  2. Add the cabbage to the pan and stir briskly until tender.

  3. Remove from heat and stir in the cream and vinegar.

  4. Serve immediately.

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. Cabbage + vinegartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 recipes

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

  2. Cabbage + porktop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together919 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Pork + creamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,093 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Pork + vinegartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,563 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Cream + vinegartop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,064 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

What each ingredient does

Cabbage
Forms the bulk of the dish and softens into tender strands as it cooks.
Salt pork
Renders fat into the pan for frying and adds savory, crispy bits.
Cream
Adds richness and a smooth, mellow body to the cooked cabbage.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that brightens the flavor and balances the richness of the fat and cream.

The step that matters

Stir in the cream and vinegar off the heat. Cream can curdle or separate when it is boiled or overheated with acid. Removing the pan from heat before adding cream and vinegar keeps the dairy smooth and the flavors balanced.

Swap the cabbage

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

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Onionfits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, cream, vinegar. 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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