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A tomato emptied and filled with diced boiled sweetbreads dressed with mayonnaise, served very cold.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Landmarks Club · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 27 ingredients
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Why it works: Clove and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,189 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Tomato and Sweet-bread Sal, Ad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Peel a large tomato and empty its contents.

  2. Take sweetbreads that have been boiled and cut into dice.

Make the filling

  1. Mix the sweetbreads with mayonnaise dressing, add a pinch of salt and a dash of paprika, and mix well.

Serve

  1. Fill the tomato with this mixture.

  2. Serve very cold, one tomato for each guest.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

139Calories
3 gProtein
1 gFat
32 gCarbs

Counts 9 of 11 ingredients. The other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 9 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Tomato1 medium (123g)22
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Cayenne1 tsp (1.8g)6
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Bay Leaf1 leaf (0.6g)2
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0
Macenot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Landmarks Club. 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. See the original page.

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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. Clove + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Clove + macetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,400 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  3. Tea + cinnamontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  4. Onion + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Mace + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

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

What each ingredient does

Sweetbreads (in the method)
Provide the main savoury filling, with a tender, delicate texture once diced.
Mayonnaise dressing (in the method)
Adds fat and richness, binding the diced sweetbreads into a creamy filling.
Tomatoes (in the method)
Serve as the hollowed edible shell that holds the filling.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (clove, sugar, onion, tomato, vinegar, tea, cinnamon):

  1. Cardamomfits better
  2. Gingerfits better
  3. Allspicefits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against clove, sugar, onion, tomato, vinegar, tea, cinnamon. 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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