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Escalloped Tomatoes

A baked tomato dish layered with cracker crumbs and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Escalloped Tomatoes

Why it works: Butter and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 22% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,918 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Escalloped Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C).

Layer the dish

  1. In an earthen baking dish, layer cracker crumbs and small bits of butter.

  2. Add a layer of sliced tomatoes, followed by another layer of seasoned cracker crumbs.

  3. Repeat the layers until the dish is full, finishing with a layer of cracker crumbs on top.

  4. Pour a little water over the entire dish to moisten it.

Bake

  1. Bake for 30 minutes.

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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Explore the science

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. Butter + tomatotop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,918 recipes

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

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 juice that softens and flavors the layered dish.
Cracker crumbs
Absorb tomato juice and give the dish a structure that becomes soft and tender.
Butter
Adds richness and fat that helps the crumbs brown and carry flavor.

The step that matters

Layering the dish. Building even layers of crumbs and tomatoes lets the crumbs soak up juices evenly, so the dish bakes into a cohesive, moist casserole rather than separating or drying in spots.

“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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