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Frovenqale Sauce

A tomato sauce made with tomatoes, oil, pepper, sea salt, garlic, powdered sugar, and parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Frovenqale Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the tomatoes

  1. Peel, remove the seeds, and squeeze the tomatoes.

Make the sauce

  1. Heat the oil in a saucepan until it begins to smoke slightly.

  2. Add the tomatoes, pepper, and salt.

  3. Incorporate the crushed garlic, powdered sugar, and chopped parsley.

  4. Allow to simmer gently 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.

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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

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

  2. Tomato + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Garlic + parsleytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together9,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Clove + parsleytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,768 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

What each ingredient does

Tomatoes
Form the body of the sauce and, once simmered, supply moisture and acidity.
Oil
Carries flavour and gives the sauce a rich, smooth mouthfeel.
Garlic
Adds pungent aroma that mellows and sweetens during gentle simmering.

The step that matters

Heating the oil until it begins to smoke slightly. Oil that is too hot can burn and turn bitter before the tomatoes go in, while oil that is too cool will not bloom the garlic and aromatics. Watching for the first wisp of smoke, then adding the tomatoes promptly, keeps the flavour clean.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, garlic, clove, sugar, parsley):

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Eggplantfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, garlic, clove, sugar, parsley. 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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