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Stuffed Cabbage

A cabbage filled with sausage meat, simmered in stock and thickened with rice flour.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Cabbage and rice work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 361 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Stuffed Cabbage

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the cabbage in water with salt and vinegar for 1 hour.

  2. Scoop out the center of the cabbage and fill it with sausage meat.

  3. Tie the cabbage securely with kitchen twine.

Cook and thicken

  1. Place the cabbage in a saucepan and cover it with stock.

  2. Cook until tender.

  3. Remove the cabbage and mix 1 teaspoon of rice flour with ½ cup of the stock.

  4. Cook for 2 minutes and pour the mixture over the cabbage.

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. Cabbage + ricetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together361 recipes

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

  2. Cabbage + vinegartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 recipes

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

  3. Meat + ricetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Rice + flourtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Cabbage + flourtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together978 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Cabbage
Forms the wrapper that holds the filling and becomes tender when simmered.
Sausage meat
Provides the filling, adding savory flavor and richness as it cooks inside the cabbage.
Rice flour
Thickens the cooking stock into a light sauce that coats the cabbage.

The step that matters

Cook until tender. The cabbage must be cooked through so it becomes soft and the sausage filling is fully cooked. Simmering gently keeps the leaves from breaking apart.

Swap the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vinegar, meat, rice, flour):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Cucumberfits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against vinegar, meat, rice, flour. 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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