Why it works: Tomato and syrup work together. They rank in the top 35% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 94 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Sweet Pickles
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the syrup and spices.
Lift the tomatoes gently into jars.
Pour the boiling syrup over the tomatoes.
Seal the jars.
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.
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Tomato + syruptop 35% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together94 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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