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Cabbage, White, Pickled

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Allspice and mace are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,189 recipes. Both carry methyleugenol, which smells clove, spice. The science ↓

Cabbage, White, Pickled

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Slice the cabbage thinly.

  2. Lay the cabbage in coarse sea salt for 24 hours.

  3. Strain the cabbage until very dry.

  4. Place the cabbage in a stone jar with allspice and mace.

  5. Pour boiling vinegar over the cabbage.

  6. Seal the jar tightly.

  7. Repeat the process with vinegar three times.

  8. The pickled cabbage will be ready for use.

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. Allspice + macetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  2. Cabbage + allspicetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together443 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Cabbage + vinegartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Allspice + vinegartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,548 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

  5. Cabbage + macetop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together415 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

Swap the mace

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

  1. Tarragonfits better
  2. Clovefits better
  3. Dillfits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cabbage, allspice, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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