Name: Pease Soup
Ingredients: Peas; Hock of Pork; Green Cabbage; Boiled Sausages; Eggs; Salt; Pepper

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

Pease Soup

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peas and cook them until soft.
Add pieces of Hock of Pork to the soup.
Boil the green cabbage, then drain and squeeze it the day before serving.
Chop the cabbage and warm it in a stew-pan.
Serve with boiled sausages and poached eggs, one of each for each person.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

Cabbage + peppertop 5% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together4,081 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Peas + cabbagetop 12% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together392 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Peas + porktop 15% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together1,589 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Peas + peppertop 15% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together5,331 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Pork + cabbagetop 16% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together919 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peas, pork, egg, pepper):

Asparagusbetter flavor fit
Capsicumbetter flavor fit
Potatobetter flavor fit
Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peas, pork, egg, pepper. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).