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Scalloped Tomatoes

A layered tomato dish baked with cracker crumbs, butter, pepper, salt, and a little sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Scalloped Tomatoes

Why it works: Pepper and vinegar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,814 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Scalloped Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Layer the dish

  1. Put a layer of cracker crumbs and small bits of butter in an earthen baking dish.

  2. Add a layer of tomatoes with a very little sugar sprinkled over them.

  3. Add another layer of cracker crumbs seasoned with butter.

  4. Add a layer of tomatoes, repeating until the dish is full, with cracker crumbs on top.

  5. Pour a little water over the layers to moisten.

Bake

  1. Bake for half an hour.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

9Calories
0 gProtein
0 gFat
2 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 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.

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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Explore the science

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. Pepper + vinegartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

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