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Cabbage and Yineoab

A finely chopped cabbage salad dressed with warm vinegar, butter and a beaten egg.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cabbage and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,081 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Cabbage and Yineoab

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dressing

  1. Heat the vinegar and butter together in a small saucepan.

  2. Beat the egg and stir it into the mixture once it has cooled enough to avoid cooking the egg.

Prepare and dress the cabbage

  1. Remove six or seven outer leaves from the cabbage and cut off the stalk.

  2. Chop the cabbage finely and mix it with salt and pepper to taste.

  3. Pour the warm vinegar mixture over the cabbage and set aside for dinner.

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.

Explore the science

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. Cabbage + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,081 recipes

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

  2. Vinegar + cabbagetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Vinegar + peppertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  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

Vinegar
Provides the sharp acidity that flavours the dressing and balances the richness of the egg and butter.
Egg
Thickens the warm dressing slightly and gives it a creamier body when stirred in gently.
Butter
Adds fat and a rounder, mellow flavour to the hot vinegar dressing.
Cabbage
Forms the bulk of the salad, providing crisp texture that softens slightly under the warm dressing.

The step that matters

Add the egg only once the mixture has cooled. Egg proteins set at around 160°F, so stirring beaten egg into a hot mixture can scramble it. Letting the vinegar and butter cool enough first lets the egg thicken the dressing smoothly.

Swap the cabbage

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Shallotfits about as well
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against vinegar, butter, egg, 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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