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Bottled Tomatoes

A preserved tomato product made by blanching, peeling, packing, and sterilizing tomatoes with sugar and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 33% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,667 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Bottled Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the tomatoes

  1. Wash the tomatoes.

  2. Blanch in boiling water for 1 minute, then cold dip and peel them.

  3. Cut up the tomatoes if necessary.

Pack and seal

  1. Pack tightly into jars.

  2. Sprinkle the salt and sugar mixture between each layer.

  3. Sterilize according to the recommended method.

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 + sugartop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,667 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Tomatoes
Make up the main body of the preserve, providing the fruit that fills each jar.
Sugar
Adds a little sweetness that balances the acidity of the tomatoes.

The step that matters

Blanch, then cold dip and peel the tomatoes. Brief blanching loosens the skins so they slip off cleanly. Leaving the skins on can make the finished jars less pleasant to eat.

“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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