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Cabbage with Pork Sausage

Sautéed cabbage with pork sausages and poached eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and cabbage work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 919 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Cabbage with Pork Sausage

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the components

  1. Fry the small link pork sausages until cooked through.

  2. Chop and sauté the cooked cabbage with seasoning.

Assemble and serve

  1. Heap the cabbage on a hot platter and shape it like an omelet.

  2. Arrange the sausages around the cabbage to form a border.

  3. Top with poached eggs before serving.

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. Pork + cabbagetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together919 recipes

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

  2. Pork + eggtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,387 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

Small link pork sausages
Frying renders fat and browns the surface, adding savory flavour and texture.
Cooked cabbage
Provides the bulk of the dish and moisture that softens as it sautés.
Eggs
Poached eggs add richness, and their runny yolks blend into the dish when cut.

The step that matters

Shaping the cabbage on the platter. Cabbage that is wet or loosely packed spreads instead of holding a shape. Pack it firmly while it is hot so the omelet form holds and the sausage border sits neatly around it.

Swap the cabbage

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, 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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