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Cabbage Salad

A salad made from finely chopped cabbage, lemon juice, olive oil, mayonnaise, and optionally grated potato.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and potato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,458 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Cabbage Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the innermost part of the cabbage head.

  2. Cut and chop the cabbage very finely.

Dress and serve

  1. Add the juice of the lemon and olive oil to the cabbage.

  2. Mix in the mayonnaise dressing.

  3. If desired, add the cold grated potato for easier digestion.

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. Olive + potatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,458 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Lemon + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,922 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

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

  4. Lemon + potatotop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

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

  5. Cabbage + lemontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together397 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Cabbage
Provides the crisp, shredded bulk that the dressing coats.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavour of the salad.
Olive oil
Adds fat that carries flavour and coats the cabbage shreds.
Mayonnaise dressing
Adds creamy richness and moisture that clings to the cabbage.

Swap the potato

The recipe marks potato as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cabbage, lemon, olive):

  1. Broccolifits better
  2. Kalefits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cabbage, lemon, olive. 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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