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Cabbage Pudding

A baked dish of cabbage, eggs, cream, butter, biscuits, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Cabbage and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,081 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Cabbage Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the cabbage

  1. Scald the chopped cabbage in boiling water and drain.

Make the pudding

  1. In a bowl, mix the cabbage with the beaten eggs, cream, melted butter, crumbled biscuits, salt, and pepper.

  2. Stir the mixture well and pour it into a baking dish.

Bake

  1. Bake until set and golden brown.

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 + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,081 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Biscuit + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together841 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Cream + biscuittop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,235 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

  5. Butter + biscuittop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,009 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set the custard-like mixture into a sliceable pudding as they cook.
Heavy cream
Adds richness and moisture, giving the pudding a soft, tender texture.
Biscuits
Soak up the liquid and help give the pudding body and structure.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a flavorful, tender crumb.
Cabbage
Provides the main vegetable bulk and mild, sweet flavor once cooked.

The step that matters

Bake until set and golden brown. Egg proteins coagulate as they heat, so underbaking leaves the pudding loose while overbaking makes it dry and rubbery. Watch for a firm centre and light browning.

Swap the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, cream, butter, biscuit, pepper):

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, cream, butter, biscuit, pepper. 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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