Name: Fried Tomatoes
Ingredients: two tablespoonfuls flour; one pint milk; pepper; salt

Why it works: Flour and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Fried Tomatoes

Ingredients

two tablespoonfuls flour
one pint milk
pepper
salt

Directions

Wipe and cut in halves as many as you need, dip the cut side of each half in fine bread crumbs that have been well seasoned with pepper, salt and sugar, place them in a buttered granite baking-pan, skin side down. Drop bits of butter between them and stand over a moderate fire to fry very slowly, turning as soon as brown. When they are tender take them up carefully with a cake turner and slide them onto a heated platter. Draw the baking-pan forward, and when the butter is a nice brown, add two tablespoonfuls flour, mix smooth, pour in one pint milk or cream, stirring steadily until it boils. Add more seasoning if needed and pour around the tomatoes.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

610Calories

21 gProtein

9 gFat

108 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 4 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Black Pepper	1 tsp ground (2.3g)	6
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 Clarke, Mary Lamson. [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.

Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together78,219 recipes

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

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together50,459 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Milk + peppertop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together26,984 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).