Name: Tomato Pickles
Ingredients: salt; vinegar; cinnamon; cloves

Why it works: Cinnamon and clove 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 Pickles

Ingredients

salt
vinegar
cinnamon
cloves

Directions

Select small ripe tomatoes. Prick each with a darning-needle; put down a laj^er of the tomatoes sprinkle liberally with salt ; then put in a layer of sliced onions, salt as before ; fill up the jar or tub with alternate layers ; let them remain so three days, then wipe off the salt and prepare a hot pickle of vinegar spiced to taste with cinnamon stick, whole cloves, etc.; pour when boiling over the tomatoes and onions ; put in a weight to keep them in the vin- egar and set dow^n cellar ; will keep without sealing in stone jars. Belle L. Butler, New York City.
'^Sweets to the sweet."

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

16Calories

0 gProtein

0 gFat

4 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Clove	1 tsp ground (2g)	7
Cinnamon	1 tsp ground (2.6g)	6
Vinegar	1 tbsp (15ml) distilled	3
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 Johnson, Vt. Congregational 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.

Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together14,189 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).
Vinegar + clovetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together10,386 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Vinegar + cinnamontop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,187 recipes

Shared aroma: 4-ethyl-2-methoxyphenol (smoky, clove).