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Cheesed Tomatoes

Cheesed Tomatoes are tomatoes filled with a mixture of tomato pulp, breadcrumbs, and cheese, then baked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,130 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cheesed Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the filling

  1. Cut the stem end from each tomato and scoop out the heart.

  2. In a bowl, combine the tomato pulp, bread crumbs, and crumbled cheese. Season the mixture with salt and pepper to taste.

Stuff and bake

  1. Fill the tomato shells with the mixture and replace the stem ends.

  2. Place the tomatoes in a roasting pan and bake at 400°F (200°C) for 20 minutes.

Serve

  1. Transfer to a hot platter and serve.

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 + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,013 recipes

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

  4. Tomato + cheesetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,896 recipes

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

  5. Bread + peppertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Tomato pulp
Adds moisture and tomato flavor to the filling, so it stays soft rather than dry.
Bread crumbs
Absorb liquid from the pulp and help the filling hold its shape.
Crumbled cheese
Melts and browns in the oven, adding richness and savory flavor.

Swap the tomato

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

  1. Capsicumfits about as well
  2. Tomatothe original
  3. Mustardfits less well
  4. Spinachfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, cheese, pepper. 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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