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Fried Cooked Cabbage

A dish of cabbage sautéed in lard or beef dripping.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Cabbage and beef work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 872 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Fried Cooked Cabbage

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the cabbage.

  2. Heat enough lard or beef dripping to cover the bottom of a frying pan.

Cook and serve

  1. Add the cabbage when the fat is hot.

  2. Stir frequently to prevent burning.

  3. Serve when the cabbage is 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.

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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. Cabbage + beeftop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together872 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cabbage
Forms the bulk of the dish and softens and browns as it cooks in hot fat.
Lard or beef dripping
Fat that conducts heat to the cabbage, adds richness, and helps it brown.

The step that matters

Stir frequently to prevent burning. Cabbage contains sugars that caramelise and then scorch at high heat in a pan. Frequent stirring spreads the cabbage across the hot fat so it browns evenly without blackening in spots.

“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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