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Cream Tomato Sauce

A sauce made by heating tomato sauce and adding cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Sauce and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,787 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Cream Tomato Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Heat the desired amount of tomato sauce.

  2. Add ½ cup of cream and stir rapidly.

  3. Serve immediately.

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. Sauce + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Tomato + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,469 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Tomato + creamtop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,034 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Tomato sauce
Provides the main body, acidity and savoury tomato flavour of the dish.
Cream
Adds fat and richness, softening the sharpness of the tomato and giving a smooth texture.

The step that matters

Adding the cream to the hot sauce. Cream can curdle or separate when it meets hot, acidic tomato sauce. Stirring rapidly disperses the cream quickly and evenly, which helps it blend smoothly instead of forming curds. Serving promptly keeps the sauce smooth before it cools and separates.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sauce, cream):

  1. Horseradishfits better
  2. Mustardfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, cream. 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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