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Roast Tomatoes

Roasted tomatoes stuffed with rich dressing and sprinkled with sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and chicken are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,031 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Roast Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Cut a slice off the top of each tomato and remove most of the inside.

  2. Fill the tomatoes with a rich dressing.

  3. Replace the tops and place the tomatoes in a pan without water.

Roast and serve

  1. Roast in a 350°F (175°C) oven for 30 minutes or until done.

  2. Sprinkle sugar over the tomatoes and serve.

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. Tomato + chickentop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,031 recipes

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

  2. Tomato + sugartop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,667 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Chicken + sugartop 39% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,461 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Large tomatoes
Form the vessel that holds the dressing and softens into tender flesh as they roast.
Rich dressing
Adds fat and flavor that moistens the tomatoes as they cook inside their shells.
Sugar
Adds sweetness that balances the tomatoes' acidity and helps them brown at the surface.

Swap the tomato

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, sugar. 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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