Name: Tomato Soup with Pasta D'ltalia
Ingredients: Tomatoes; Pasta; Salt; Pepper; Water

Why it works: Tomato and pasta are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,622 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Tomato Soup with Pasta D'ltalia

Ingredients

Directions

Chop the tomatoes and place them in a pot.
Add water and bring to a boil.
Stir in the pasta and cook until tender.
Season with salt and pepper to taste.
Serve hot.

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.

Tomato + pastatop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,622 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together17,923 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Pasta + peppertop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,091 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).