Name: Cabbage, Stuffed
Ingredients: 1 firm young cabbage; 1 tablespoon vinegar; Sausage meat; Chestnuts, chopped; Slices of bacon; Flavored stock

Why it works: Cabbage and chestnut work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 40 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Cabbage, Stuffed

Ingredients

Directions

Wash the cabbage thoroughly and soak it in water with vinegar for 30 minutes.
Drain, cut off the stalk, and scoop out the heart to create space for stuffing.
Mix sausage meat with chopped chestnuts for the stuffing and press it into the cabbage.
Cover the stuffing with cabbage leaves and tie them securely with tape.
Place the cabbage in a saucepan with bacon slices above and below it, and cover with stock.
Stew gently for 30 minutes.
Remove the cabbage, take off the tape, and place it on a hot dish.
Strain the gravy over the cabbage before serving.

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.

Cabbage + chestnuttop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together40 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
Cabbage + vinegartop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,924 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Meat + chestnuttop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together164 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Vinegar + chestnuttop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together133 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Cabbage + meattop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together292 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).