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Stewed Tomatoes I

A tomato stew made with tomatoes, water, salt, pepper, cream, bread, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Stewed Tomatoes I

Ingredients

Directions

Make the stewed tomatoes

  1. Boil the tomatoes in 1 cup of water.

  2. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

  3. Add ½ cup of cream.

  4. Bring to a boil.

Serve over bread

  1. Crumble the bread into a deep dish.

  2. Add the butter.

  3. Pour the cooked tomatoes over the bread.

  4. 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.

  1. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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

  3. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Tomato + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,013 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Pepper + walnuttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Tomatoes
Provide the main body and acidic, fresh flavour of the stew.
Cream
Adds richness and a smoother, creamier texture to the tomatoes.
Bread
Soaks up the tomato liquid and gives the dish body and substance.
Butter
Adds fat, richness and flavour to the bread and sauce.

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, pepper, cream, bread, butter):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Lima beansfits better
  3. Peasfits about as well
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, pepper, cream, bread, butter. 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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