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Feozen Tomato Salad

A chilled salad of tomatoes, celery, onion, mayonnaise, and dressing, served in lettuce leaves.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,033 recipes mention both. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Feozen Tomato Salad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the tomatoes

  1. Wash and dry the 6 tomatoes, then cut a slice from the stem end of each.

  2. Remove the seeds and pulp without breaking the skins.

Make the filling

  1. In a bowl, combine the seeds and pulp with the chopped tomatoes, celery, onion juice, salt, pepper, salad dressing, and mayonnaise.

  2. Add fruit coloring to achieve a red color.

Freeze and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a small freezer and freeze.

  2. Once frozen, fill the tomato hulls with the mixture.

  3. Serve 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Celery + lettucetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,033 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Tomato + celerytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together3,377 recipes

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

  3. Celery + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together16,012 recipes

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

  4. Tomato + lettucetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Celery + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together18,518 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Firm red tomatoes
Form the edible shell that holds the chilled filling.
Mayonnaise
Adds fat and creaminess, giving the filling a smooth, rich texture.
Celery
Adds crisp texture and a fresh, mild flavor to the filling.
Salad dressing
Adds tang and seasoning, balancing the richness of the mayonnaise.

The step that matters

Remove the seeds and pulp without breaking the skins. The skins must stay intact to hold the filling once frozen. Cutting through them lets the mixture leak out and weakens the cup's structure.

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

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

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  3. Spinachbetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, celery, pepper, lettuce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).

“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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