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Cabbage and Potato Salad

A salad of boiled potatoes, shredded cabbage, onion, and Green Seal dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and onion are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,023 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Cabbage and Potato Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the potatoes in salted water until tender, then cut them into cubes.

  2. Shred the cabbage as you would for coleslaw.

Assemble and serve

  1. In a bowl, combine the potatoes, cabbage, and onion.

  2. Pour the Green Seal Salad Dressing over the mixture and mix lightly with a fork.

  3. Transfer to a cold salad bowl 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. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,023 recipes

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

  2. Cabbage + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,001 recipes

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

  3. Potato + cabbagetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together275 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Provide the bulk and soft, starchy body of the salad once boiled and cubed.
White cabbage
Adds crisp texture and a fresh, slightly sweet flavour that contrasts the soft potato.
Onion
Adds sharp, aromatic flavour that brightens the salad.
Green seal salad dressing
Adds moisture and tangy flavour that coats the potatoes and cabbage.

The step that matters

Boil the potatoes until tender. Potatoes that are undercooked stay firm and hard to cut evenly, while overcooked ones break apart and turn mushy. Tender but intact cubes hold their shape when the dressing is mixed in.

Swap the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, onion):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Okrafits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, onion. 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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