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Dressed Cabbage

A vinegar-based dressing with egg, sugar, salt, and butter for cabbage.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Vinegar and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 20,806 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Dressed Cabbage

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dressing

  1. Beat the egg in a bowl.

  2. Combine vinegar, sugar, salt, and butter in a saucepan over medium heat.

  3. Stir in the beaten egg and cook until it boils.

  4. Remove from heat and let cool.

Serve

  1. Pour the dressing over chopped or shaved 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. Vinegar + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,806 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  2. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Vinegar + buttertop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,513 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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

What each ingredient does

Vinegar
Provides the sharp acidity that balances the sweetness of the dressing.
Egg
Thickens the dressing as it heats and gives it a creamy body.
Sugar
Adds sweetness to offset the acidity of the vinegar.
Butter
Adds richness and a smooth texture to the dressing.

The step that matters

Cooking the egg into the dressing. Stirring the beaten egg into the hot mixture while stirring constantly keeps it smooth. Cooking until it boils cooks the egg enough to thicken the dressing without curdling it.

“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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