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Frozen Tomato Salad

A chilled tomato salad with mayonnaise, salt, and garnishes of olives, pickles, parsley, served in green peppers or lettuce leaves.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,539 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Frozen Tomato Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Strain the canned tomatoes through a colander and then through a sieve.

  2. Add salt and mayonnaise or cooked dressing, then mix well.

  3. Freeze the mixture until solid.

Serve

  1. Serve in green peppers or on a lettuce leaf.

  2. Garnish with mayonnaise, olives, pickles, and parsley.

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 + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  3. Lettuce + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,483 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  4. Lettuce + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Olive + parsleytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,649 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Canned tomatoes
Provide the main body and liquid that freezes into the salad.
Mayonnaise or cooked dressing
Adds fat and richness, softening the texture of the frozen tomato.

Swap the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, pepper, olive, parsley):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Eggplantfits better
  3. Carrotfits better
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, pepper, olive, parsley. 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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