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Sea-kale

Sea kale boiled with coarse sea salt, optionally in milk, served with French or white sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Kale and sauce work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 87 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Sea-kale

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Tie sea kale in bundles.

Cook

  1. Put bundles into boiling water with coarse sea salt.

  2. Boil gently with the lid off until tender.

  3. If desired, boil in milk and use the milk for sauce.

Serve

  1. Serve with French or white sauce.

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. Kale + saucetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together87 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Kale + milktop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

  3. Milk + saucetop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,759 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Sea-kale
The main vegetable; it is the dish itself, cooked until tender.
Milk
Optional cooking liquid that can be turned into a sauce, adding richness and flavour.

Swap the kale

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, sauce):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Kalethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, sauce. 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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