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Macaroni with Tomatoes

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Macaroni with Tomatoes

Why it works: Pepper and thyme are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,585 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Macaroni with Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut up the tomatoes and remove the seeds and watery substance.

  2. Stew the tomatoes in a saucepan with butter, pepper, salt, and thyme.

  3. Add a few spoonfuls of soup stock or gravy.

  4. Stir continuously until reduced to a pulp.

  5. Pass the mixture through a fine sieve.

  6. Dress the macaroni with the sauce and top with plenty of freshly grated cheese.

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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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. Pepper + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,585 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Tomato + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,370 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Tomato + cheesetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,896 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, pepper, thyme, cheese):

  1. Potatofits about as well
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Mustardfits about as well
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, pepper, thyme, cheese. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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