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Iced Stuffed Tomatoes

A chilled tomato filled with a seasoned onion, cress, and parsley mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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 cooks put them together in 15,539 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Iced Stuffed Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the tomatoes

  1. Scald and peel the tomatoes.

  2. Cut off the stem end and scoop out the seeds.

  3. Chill the tomatoes on ice for 2 hours.

Make the filling

  1. In a bowl, mix the onion, cress, and parsley.

  2. Add salt, pepper, olive oil, and vinegar to the mixture.

  3. Pour the dressing over the mixture and stir well.

  4. Fill the tomatoes with the mixture.

Serve

  1. Serve each tomato on a lettuce leaf.

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.

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. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

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

  2. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Parsley + lettucetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,483 recipes

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

  4. Olive + lettucetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,580 recipes

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

  5. Parsley + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,649 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Tomatoes
Provide the hollow shell that holds the filling and the juicy body of the dish.
Olive oil
Adds richness and carries flavour through the dressing, coating the herbs and onion.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that sharpens the dressing and balances the oil's richness.
Onion
Contributes sharp, pungent flavour to the filling.

The step that matters

Chill the tomatoes on ice for 2 hours. Chilling firms the tomato flesh and keeps it cold so the shell holds its shape when filled and the filling stays crisp and fresh.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Cucumberfits better
  3. Eggplantfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, parsley, pepper, olive, vinegar, lettuce. 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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