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Hot Slaw

A cabbage and apple slaw cooked in lard with seasoning and grated potato.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Hot Slaw

Why it works: Cabbage and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,081 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Hot Slaw

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Heat the lard in a frying pan.

  2. Add the chopped cabbage and sliced apples.

  3. Season with salt, pepper, and sugar.

  4. Fry until the cabbage is about half cooked.

  5. Add vinegar and water.

  6. Cook until done.

  7. Grate the raw potato over the mixture and stir quickly.

  8. Serve.

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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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 + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,081 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Pepper + potatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  4. Cabbage + appletop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together235 recipes

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cabbage
Forms the bulk of the slaw and becomes tender and sweet as it cooks.
Lard
Fat that conducts heat for frying and carries flavour through the dish.
Apples
Add sweetness and a fruity tang that balances the vinegar.
Raw potato
Grated into the mixture, it releases starch that thickens the slaw slightly.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that sharpens the flavour and cuts the richness of the fat.

The step that matters

Grate the raw potato over the mixture and stir quickly.. Raw potato starch thickens as it meets the hot liquid, so stirring quickly keeps it evenly distributed and prevents lumps or sticking to the pan bottom.

Swap the apple

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

  1. Limefits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cabbage, pepper, sugar, vinegar, potato. 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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