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Tomato Toast

A toast topped with a creamy tomato mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Tomato Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Make the tomato sauce

  1. Strain the tomatoes through a colander.

  2. Season the strained tomatoes to taste.

  3. Add the cream to the seasoned tomatoes and mix well.

Prepare the toast

  1. Toast the bread until golden brown.

  2. Spread butter on the toasted bread.

Assemble and serve

  1. Arrange the buttered toast on a platter and pour the tomato mixture over it.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,013 recipes

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

  4. Tomato + buttertop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,918 recipes

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

  5. Cream + breadtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,789 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Tomatoes
Provide the main body and acidic, fresh tomato flavor of the sauce.
Cream
Adds richness and a smooth, silky texture that softens the tomato acidity.
Bread
Forms the crisp, absorbent base that holds the sauce on the platter.
Butter
Adds fat and flavor to the toast and helps it brown slightly as it toasts.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, bread, butter):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Onionfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, bread, butter. 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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