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Cauliflower with White Sauce

A boiled cauliflower served with a white sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Cauliflower and sauce work together. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 463 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Cauliflower with White Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Trim the cauliflower, removing bad leaves and coarse stalk.

  2. Soak the cauliflower in salt water to remove insects.

  3. Wash the cauliflower well in fresh water.

Cook and serve

  1. Boil the cauliflower quickly until tender.

  2. Serve the cauliflower with white sauce.

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. Cauliflower + saucetop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together463 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Cauliflower
Forms the main body of the dish and becomes tender when boiled.

The step that matters

Boil the cauliflower quickly until tender. Boiling briefly in plenty of water keeps the florets from overcooking into mush while letting the dense stalk soften fully. Overcooking releases sulfurous compounds that give a strong smell and a waterlogged texture.

“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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