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Cabbage with Potatoes, Flamande

A dish of cooked cabbage mixed with mashed potatoes, seasoned with salt and pepper, and simmered in thickened veal gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 with Potatoes, Flamande

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the cabbage

  1. Drain the cooked cabbage in a colander.

  2. Chop the drained cabbage finely.

Make the dish

  1. In a saucepan, combine the chopped cabbage with ¼ of its quantity in mashed potatoes. Mix the mixture well.

  2. Season with salt and pepper.

  3. Add a few spoonfuls of thickened veal gravy and let it simmer for 30 minutes.

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

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

  2. Cabbage + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together275 recipes

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

  3. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + vealtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,049 recipes

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

  5. Potato + vealtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together343 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked cabbage
Forms the main body of the dish and provides its fresh, mildly sweet flavor.
Mashed potatoes
Adds starch and body, helping the chopped cabbage hold together as a soft mass.
Thickened veal gravy
Adds moisture and savory flavor while the mixture simmers.

The step that matters

Add a few spoonfuls of thickened veal gravy and let it simmer for 30 minutes. Simmering gently lets the flavors meld and the mixture thicken evenly. Too much liquid or too vigorous a boil can make the dish loose or scorched on the bottom.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cabbage, pepper, veal):

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Cauliflowerfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cabbage, pepper, veal. 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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