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Another Chili Sauce

A tomato-based chili sauce made with onions, peppers, spices, sugar, and vinegar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,917 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Another Chili Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the tomatoes into pieces and chop the onions and peppers.

Cook

  1. Combine all ingredients except the tomatoes in a pot and cook until the onions and peppers are tender.

  2. Add the tomatoes and boil for at least 1 hour.

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. Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Allspice + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Allspice + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Allspice + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,331 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

What each ingredient does

Tomatoes
Form the bulk of the sauce, providing moisture, body and a fresh, acidic base.
Onions
Soften as they cook, adding sweetness and savory depth to the sauce.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that sharpens flavor and helps preserve the sauce.
Sugar
Balances the acidity of the vinegar and tomatoes with sweetness and aids browning.

The step that matters

Adding the tomatoes and boiling for at least 1 hour. Tomatoes contain a lot of water, and a long, steady boil is needed to evaporate it and thicken the sauce. Stopping early leaves it thin and watery.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, pepper, allspice, cinnamon, clove, ginger, nutmeg):

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Sweet potatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, pepper, allspice, cinnamon, clove, ginger, nutmeg. 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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