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Brussels Sprouts and Cabbage

A simple boiled dish of Brussels sprouts and cabbage seasoned with coarse sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Brussels sprouts and cabbage work together. They rank in the top 43% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Brussels Sprouts and Cabbage

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the Brussels sprouts and cabbage.

  2. Soak in salt water to remove any grubs.

Boil

  1. Bring a pot of water to a boil.

  2. Add the cabbage and savoy; boil for about 20 minutes.

  3. Add the Brussels sprouts; boil for an additional 10 minutes until tender.

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. Brussels sprouts + cabbagetop 43% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1 recipe

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Brussels sprouts
The dense sprouts soften as they boil, becoming tender enough to eat.
Cabbage
Its firmer leaves need the longer initial boil to soften before the sprouts go in.

The step that matters

Adding the Brussels sprouts. Sprouts go in only for the final 10 minutes. Boiling them too long turns them mushy and releases stronger sulfur compounds, which give a strong cabbage-like smell and bitter flavour.

“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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