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Tomato Baskets Wth Green Pease

A salad of tomatoes stuffed with cold boiled green peas and topped with mayonnaise.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Peas and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,293 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

Tomato Baskets Wth Green Pease

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the tomatoes

  1. Peel the tomatoes and cut off the tops.

  2. Remove the seeds and soft pulp, leaving a thick outer wall.

Assemble and serve

  1. Fill each tomato with cold boiled green peas.

  2. Place each filled tomato on a leaf of lettuce.

  3. Arrange the tomatoes in a salad bowl or on a platter.

  4. Top each tomato basket with a tablespoon of mayonnaise or serve mayonnaise on the side.

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. Peas + lettucetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,293 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  2. Tomato + lettucetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,655 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + peastop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,058 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Large firm tomatoes
Hollowed out to form edible baskets that hold the filling.
Cold boiled green peas
Provide the filling, adding sweetness and a soft, tender texture.
Mayonnaise
Adds fat and creaminess that moistens the peas and tomato.

The step that matters

Removing the seeds and pulp. Cutting too close to the skin breaks the tomato wall, so it cannot hold the filling. Leaving a thick outer wall keeps the basket firm and stops the juicy pulp from leaking onto the plate.

Swap the tomato

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

  1. Beetrootfits better
  2. Cucumberfits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peas, 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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