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Tomatoes sliced and sweetened with honey, served fresh.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and honey work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 674 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the tomatoes and slice them.

  2. Sweeten the sliced tomatoes with honey.

  3. Serve fresh as a dish.

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 + honeytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together674 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Ripe tomatoes
Provide the fresh, juicy base of the dish and its natural acidity.
Honey
Adds sweetness that balances the tomatoes' acidity.

“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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