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Roast Protose

Roast Protose is a baked dish made with granola or toasted bread crumbs, water, stewed tomatoes, protose, sage, and sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,013 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Roast Protose

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

Mix and bake

  1. In a large bowl, mix the granola or bread crumbs, water, tomatoes, protose, sage, and salt until well combined.

  2. Transfer the mixture to shallow pans.

  3. Bake until brown.

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. Bread + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,013 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Tomato + sagetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together417 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Bread + sagetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,778 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Granola or toasted bread crumbs
Absorbs the liquid and gives the loaf a firm, crumbly structure.
Protose
Provides the main savory body and chewy texture of the dish.
Stewed, strained tomatoes
Adds moisture and acidity that keep the mixture from drying out in the oven.
Sage
Contributes the herbal aroma that defines the flavor.

The step that matters

Bake until brown. Browning depends on surface heat and dryness, so the cook must judge color rather than time alone. Pale or underbaked centers stay soft and wet, while over-baking dries the surface and hardens the crumbs.

Swap the sage

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

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Celeryfits better
  3. Basilfits better
  4. Sagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, 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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