Why it works: Tomato and sherry work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 492 recipes. Both carry damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓
Tomato Bisque Soup
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the tomatoes by cooking them until soft.
Blend the cooked tomatoes until smooth.
Add sherry to the blended tomatoes and stir well.
Heat the mixture gently before serving.
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.
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Tomato + sherrytop 15% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together492 recipes
Shared aroma: damascenone (apple, rose).
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