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Stuffed Cabbage

A cabbage head filled with nutmeat, bread crumbs, and egg yolk, then boiled or steamed.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cabbage and sage work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 38 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Stuffed Cabbage

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the heart from the cabbage.

  2. Fill the cavity with a mixture of nutmeat, bread crumbs, and egg yolk.

  3. Place the two halves of the cabbage together and tie firmly or sew in a clean cloth.

Cook and serve

  1. Boil in a kettle or steam in a steam cooker for 2 hours.

  2. Serve hot.

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.

Explore the science

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. Cabbage + sagetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together38 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  3. Sage + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,778 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Cabbage + breadtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together380 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Cabbage + eggtop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,391 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Nutmeat
Forms the bulk of the filling and gives it a savory, substantial body.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and help the filling hold together as it cooks.
Egg yolk
Binds the filling so it holds its shape when sliced.

The step that matters

Tie the cabbage firmly. If the halves are not held tightly together, the filling can loosen and spill out during the long cooking time, leaving the cabbage dry and the filling scattered in the liquid or steamer.

Swap the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sage, bread, egg):

  1. Sweet potatofits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sage, bread, egg. 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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