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Tomatoes Stuffed with Stuccotash

Tomatoes stuffed with succotash, baked with buttered cracker crumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and butter 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 ↓

Tomatoes Stuffed with Stuccotash

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a hot oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the tomatoes

  1. Wash and wipe the tomatoes, then remove a thin slice from the stem end.

  2. Scoop out the inside of the tomatoes and sprinkle with coarse sea salt.

  3. Invert the tomatoes and let them stand for 30 minutes.

Stuff and bake

  1. Mix the tomato pulp with the succotash and stuff the tomatoes.

  2. Arrange the stuffed tomatoes in a well-buttered granite dripping pan.

  3. Sprinkle the tops with buttered cracker crumbs.

  4. Bake at 400°F (200°C) for 20 minutes or until tender.

  5. Baste with melted butter before serving.

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. Tomato + buttertop 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
Serve as the hollow shell that holds the filling and softens as it bakes.
Succotash
Provides the bulk of the stuffing, adding body and savory filling to the tomatoes.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the cracker crumbs brown on top.
Buttered cracker crumbs
Form a crisp, golden topping that contrasts with the soft tomato.

The step that matters

Inverting the tomatoes to drain. Standing the salted tomatoes upside down for 30 minutes lets excess juice drain out. Without this, extra liquid can dilute the filling and make the stuffed tomatoes watery as they bake.

“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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