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Kale for Greens, with Salt Pork or Bacon

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Kale and pork work together. They rank in the top 19% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 177 recipes. Both carry 2-methylbutyraldehyde, which smells malty, chocolate. The science ↓

Kale for Greens, with Salt Pork or Bacon

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the kale and chop it coarsely.

  2. Cook the kale with the salt pork or bacon, or separately.

  3. Serve the cooked kale alongside the meats.

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. Kale + porktop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together177 recipes

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

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

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