Name: Cabbages, Brussels Sprouts, Kale, and Greens
Ingredients: Cabbages; Brussels sprouts; Kale; Greens; Coarse sea salt

Why it works: Cabbage and kale work together. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 35 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Cabbages, Brussels Sprouts, Kale, and Greens

Ingredients

Directions

Wash the vegetables thoroughly in saltwater.
Inspect carefully, especially behind the leaves, for insects.
Remove any stalks and loose, decayed, or discolored leaves.

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.

Cabbage + kaletop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together35 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Cabbage + brussels sproutstop 43% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1 recipe

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Brussels sprouts + kaletop 56% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together0 recipes

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