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Sea Kale

Sea kale boiled with salt, sugar, baking soda, optionally topped with white sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,147 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Sea Kale

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the sea kale and wash it thoroughly.

  2. Remove the dark leaves and tie the sea kale in bunches.

Cook and serve

  1. Bring a pan of water to a boil and add the salt, sugar, and baking soda.

  2. Add the sea kale and boil until tender, about 30 to 40 minutes.

  3. Drain the sea kale, untie it, and serve in a tureen.

  4. If desired, pour white sauce over the sea kale before serving.

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. Sugar + saucetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Kale + saucetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together87 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Kale + sugartop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together71 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

What each ingredient does

Sea kale
Is the vegetable being cooked, so it is the main component of the dish.

Swap the kale

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, sauce):

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Horseradishfits better
  4. Kalethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, sauce. 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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