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Stewed Cabbage

A cabbage dish simmered in water and finished with cream sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Stewed Cabbage

Why it works: Cream and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,787 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Stewed Cabbage

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the cabbage into quarters and soak in cold water for 1 hour.

  2. Drain and shake off excess water.

  3. Remove the hard part and chop the remaining cabbage finely.

Cook

  1. Place in a stewing pan and cover with boiling water.

  2. Add salt and boil for 20 minutes.

  3. Drain in a colander and transfer to a heated dish.

Serve

  1. Pour cream sauce over the 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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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. Cream + saucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Cabbage + saucetop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together437 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Cabbage + creamtop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together778 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

What each ingredient does

Cabbage
Forms the main body of the dish and gives it its bulk and mild sweetness when cooked.
Cream sauce
Adds richness and fat, softening the cabbage's flavour and giving a smooth finish.

The step that matters

Drain in a colander. Cabbage holds a lot of water after boiling. Draining it well keeps the dish from turning watery and lets the cream sauce cling to the cabbage.

Swap the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, sauce):

  1. Horseradishfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, sauce. 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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