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Tomatoes Farcia

Tomatoes stuffed with a meat, bread, and herb mixture, baked with butter, olive oil, and egg.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Garlic and onion match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Tomatoes Farcia

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the filling

  1. Remove the insides from the tomatoes and set aside.

  2. In a bowl, combine soaked bread, cold meat, garlic, onion, parsley, salt, and pepper.

  3. Pass the mixture through a meat chopper.

  4. Add melted butter, olive oil, and beaten egg to the mixture and mix well.

Stuff and bake

  1. Stuff the tomato shells with the filling.

  2. Cover with bread crumbs and bake at 350°F (175°C) for 30 minutes.

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. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Garlic + parsleytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Clove + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

What each ingredient does

Tomatoes
Hollowed shells that hold the filling and soften as they bake.
Bread
Soaked bread adds moisture and body to the filling.
Egg
Binds the filling so it holds its shape when sliced.
Cold meat
Provides savoury flavour and substance to the stuffing.
Bread crumbs
Form a topping that browns in the oven.

The step that matters

Passing the filling through a meat chopper. Chopping the bread and meat finely gives an even, cohesive filling; coarse pieces can fall apart or leave gaps once the egg is mixed in and baked.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, bread, meat, garlic, onion, parsley, pepper):

  1. Thymefits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Celeryfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, bread, meat, garlic, onion, parsley, pepper. 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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