Name: Cabbage Baked with Cheese
Ingredients: cooked cabbage; white sauce; cheese; seasoning

Why it works: Sauce and cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,987 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Cabbage Baked with Cheese

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

cooked cabbage
white sauce
cheese
seasoning

Directions

The book says “a hot oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Chop the cooked cabbage finely.
In a baking dish, layer the cabbage, white sauce, and cheese, seasoning each layer well.
Top with cheese and bake in a hot oven at 400°F (200°C) until the cheese is browned.

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.

Sauce + cheesetop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,987 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Cabbage + cheesetop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together90 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Cabbage + saucetop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together437 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).