Name: Curried Cabbage
Ingredients: 1 young cabbage; curry sauce; boiled rice

Why it works: Cabbage and rice work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 361 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Curried Cabbage

Ingredients

1 young cabbage
curry sauce
boiled rice

Directions

Remove all the outer leaves from the cabbage.
Boil the remaining cabbage until half cooked, then drain and chop finely.
Place the chopped cabbage in a pan with curry sauce and simmer gently for one hour.
Serve the curried cabbage in a border of boiled rice.

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 + ricetop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together361 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Sauce + ricetop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together2,396 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Cabbage + saucetop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together437 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).