Name: Chili Sauce
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons mixed whole salt; 1 peck tomatoes; 1 dozen assorted mangoes; 1 dozen good-sized onions; salt

Why it works: Tomato and mango match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 225 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Chili Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

1 dozen good-sized onions. ]/i cup vinegar.
2 tablespoons mixed whole Salt and sugar to taste.
Put spices in bag and cook all together until done. Seal in glass jars.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

66Calories

2 gProtein

0 gFat

15 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 3 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Onion	1 medium (110g)	44
Tomato	1 medium (123g)	22
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

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

By Hamilton, Ohio. First Methodist Episcopal church. [from old catalog]. 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.

Tomato + mangotop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together225 recipes

Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).
Tomato + oniontop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together20,633 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Mango + oniontop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together682 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).