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Tomatoes Stuffed with Cheese

Tomatoes are hollowed, filled with a mixture of Neufchâtel and Roquefort cheese mixed with mayonnaise, and served on lettuce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and roquefort cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 21 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Tomatoes Stuffed with Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Blend equal amounts of Neufchâtel and Roquefort cheese together.

  2. Mix the cheese with mayonnaise dressing.

Fill and serve

  1. Remove the centers from the tomatoes.

  2. Fill the tomatoes with the cheese 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.

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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. Cheese + roquefort cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together21 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

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

  3. Cheese + tomatotop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,896 recipes

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

  4. Roquefort cheese + lettucetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Cheese + lettucetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together614 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

Neufchâtel cheese
Provides a mild, creamy base that gives the filling body and smoothness.
Roquefort cheese
Adds a sharp, salty, tangy flavour that stands out against the mild cheese.
Mayonnaise dressing
Adds fat and moisture, keeping the cheese filling soft and spreadable.

Swap the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cheese, roquefort cheese, tomato):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Lettucethe original
  3. Mustardfits about as well
  4. Potatofits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, roquefort cheese, tomato. 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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