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Stuffed Cabbage

A cabbage heart filled with chopped chicken or veal, egg yolk, and seasonings, then boiled.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cabbage and chicken work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 436 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Stuffed Cabbage

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut out the heart of the cabbage.

Stuff and tie

  1. Fill the cavity with the finely chopped chicken or veal, seasoned and mixed with the egg yolk.

  2. Tie the cabbage securely, using string or cloth.

Cook

  1. Boil in a covered pot for 2 hours.

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. Cabbage + chickentop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together436 recipes

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

  2. Chicken + eggtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,991 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Cabbage + eggtop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,391 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cabbage
Forms the outer wrapper that holds the filling and becomes tender as it cooks.
Cooked chicken or veal
Provides the savory filling that fills the cabbage cavity.
Egg yolk
Binds the chopped meat so the filling holds together while cooking.

The step that matters

Tie the cabbage securely. If the cabbage is loosely tied, the filling can leak out or fall apart during the long boil. A firm wrap keeps the stuffing packed inside and the leaves closed around it.

Swap the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, egg):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, egg. 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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