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Cabbage Boiled with Meat

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cabbage and meat work together. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 292 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Cabbage Boiled with Meat

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove any decayed outer leaves from the cabbage and cut the heads into quarters.

  2. Soak the cabbage in salt water for 1 hour to remove any vermin.

  3. Bring a pot of water to a boil and skim off any fat.

  4. Add the drained cabbage to the boiling water.

  5. If serving the meat cold, use some of the pot liquor to boil the cabbage, adding boiling water to the pot.

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. Cabbage + meattop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together292 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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