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Tomato Salad with Cream

A salad of sliced tomatoes seasoned with salt and pepper, topped with whipped cream mixed with olives, served on lettuce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 15,539 recipes mention both. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Tomato Salad with Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Slice the tomatoes into thick slices and place them in a salad bowl.

  2. Sprinkle with coarse sea salt and white pepper, then chill.

Dress and serve

  1. Before serving, mix chopped olives into the whipped cream and pour over the tomatoes.

  2. Serve on crisp lettuce leaves.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Olive + lettucetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Tomato + lettucetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,655 recipes

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

  4. White pepper + creamtop 24% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together1,439 recipes
  5. White pepper + lettucetop 25% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together208 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyraldehyde (malty, chocolate).

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 juicy moisture of the salad.
Whipped cream
Adds richness and a creamy, fat-based coating over the tomatoes.
Chopped olives
Add salty, briny flavor that contrasts with the sweet tomatoes and cream.

Flavor stand-ins for the white pepper

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

  1. Capersbetter flavor fit
  2. Tarragonbetter flavor fit
  3. Garlicbetter flavor fit
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, cream, olive, lettuce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

“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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