Why it works: Lemon and tarragon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,137 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓
Tomato Jelly
Ingredients
Directions
Soak the gelatine in ½ cup of cold water for 30 minutes.
In a stew pan, combine tomatoes, celery, bay leaves, and onion. Bring to a boil and simmer for 15 minutes.
Add the soaked gelatine and strain the mixture through a fine sieve.
Stir in lemon juice, tarragon vinegar, and paprika.
Pour into a mold and let it harden.
Serve on lettuce leaves with mayonnaise dressing.
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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.
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Lemon + tarragontop 1% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together1,137 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
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Celery + tarragontop 1% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together456 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
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Celery + lemontop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together3,467 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
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Tomato + celerytop 4% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together3,377 recipes
Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
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Tomato + tarragontop 6% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together391 recipes
Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Flavor stand-ins for the onion
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, celery, lemon, tarragon, vinegar):
- Mustardbetter flavor fit
- Lettucebetter flavor fit
- Cucumberbetter flavor fit
- Onionthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, celery, lemon, tarragon, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).
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