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Cauliflower Sauce

A sauce made by boiling cauliflower and adding it to white sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and cauliflower work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 463 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Cauliflower Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the cauliflower until tender.

  2. Drain and chop the cauliflower small.

Finish the sauce

  1. Stir the chopped cauliflower into the boiling white sauce.

  2. Let it cook over the heat for 1-2 minutes.

  3. 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. Sauce + cauliflowertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together463 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

White sauce
Forms the creamy, smooth base that coats the cauliflower and carries the flavor.
Cauliflower
Provides the main body, mild flavor and tender texture of the sauce.

The step that matters

Drain the cauliflower well before chopping and stirring it in. Surplus water from the cauliflower would thin the white sauce and dilute its flavor and body. Draining first keeps the sauce thick and coating.

“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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