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Brussels Sprouts and Cabbage

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Brussels sprouts and cabbage work together. They rank in the top 43% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Brussels Sprouts and Cabbage

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the Brussels sprouts and cabbage to remove any grubs.

  2. Soak in salted water for a few minutes.

  3. Bring a pot of water to a boil.

  4. Add the vegetables to the boiling water.

  5. Boil Brussels sprouts for 10 minutes and cabbage for 20 minutes, uncovered, until tender.

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. Brussels sprouts + cabbagetop 43% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1 recipe

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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