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Sliced Tomatoes on Shredded Wheat Biscuit

A simple dish of sliced tomatoes seasoned with salt, pepper, and olive oil served atop shredded wheat biscuits.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,539 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Sliced Tomatoes on Shredded Wheat Biscuit

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place shredded wheat biscuits on a plate.

  2. Slice fresh tomatoes and arrange them on top of the biscuits.

  3. Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste.

  4. Drizzle with olive oil before serving.

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.

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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. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Wheat + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,100 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  4. Wheat + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together468 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-nonanal (fatty, waxy).

  5. Wheat + biscuittop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together116 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Shredded wheat biscuits
Provide the crisp, starchy base that holds the toppings.
Fresh tomatoes
Add juiciness and acidity that moisten the dry biscuit.
Olive oil
Adds fat and a smooth, rich mouthfeel to the tomatoes and biscuit.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (wheat, biscuit, pepper, olive):

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Lettucefits about as well
  3. Capsicumfits about as well
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, biscuit, pepper, olive. 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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