Name: Pease Soup
Ingredients: Chopped green cabbage; Boiled sausages; Poached eggs; Hock of pork; 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

Warm the pease soup in a pot.
Boil, drain, and squeeze the cabbage a 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).
Cabbage + porktop 16% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together919 recipes

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

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together22,121 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Egg + porktop 30% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together10,387 recipes

Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).
Cabbage + eggtop 32% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together1,391 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

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 (egg, pork, pepper):

Capsicumbetter flavor fit
Potatobetter flavor fit
Asparagusbetter flavor fit
Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, pork, 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).