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Kohl Cannon, or Kale Cannon

A casserole of mashed potatoes mixed with cooked kale or cabbage, seasoned with butter, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Potato and kale work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 171 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Kohl Cannon, or Kale Cannon

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook the kale or cabbage until tender, then drain and chop finely.

  2. Mix the chopped greens with the mashed potatoes.

  3. Add butter, coarse sea salt, and black pepper to taste.

  4. Stir until well combined and serve hot.

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. Potato + kaletop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together171 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

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

  3. Kale + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together492 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  5. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Mashed potatoes
Provide the soft, starchy base that carries the rest of the dish.
Kale or cabbage
Adds texture and a slightly earthy, vegetal flavour to the mash.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, giving the mash a smoother mouthfeel and flavour.

Swap the kale

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (potato, butter, pepper):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Onionfits better
  4. Kalethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, butter, pepper. 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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