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Stuffed Cabbage

A dish of finely chopped cooked chicken or veal mixed with egg yolk, rolled in cabbage, then boiled.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and cabbage work together. They rank in the top 20% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 436 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Stuffed Cabbage

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Chop the cooked chicken or veal very fine and season heavily.

  2. Roll the mixture into balls with the yolk of the egg.

Cook

  1. Tie the cabbage firmly together, using a cloth if desired.

  2. Boil the cabbage in a covered kettle for two hours.

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. Chicken + cabbagetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together436 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Chicken + eggtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,991 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Egg + cabbagetop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,391 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked chicken or veal
Provides the main filling, and finely chopping it helps the mixture hold together when shaped.
Yolk of 1 egg
Binds the minced meat so it holds its shape in balls.
Cabbage
Wrapping that becomes tender and sweet during long, covered boiling.

Swap the cabbage

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

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, egg. 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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