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 ↓
Tomato Canape
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Toast the bread.
Cut the toasted bread into rounds to fit the tomato slices.
Assemble
Place a thick slice of tomato on each piece of toast.
Add a spoonful of mayonnaise in the center of each tomato slice.
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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Bread + tomatotop 10% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together1,013 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
- Bread
- Provides a crisp, sturdy base that holds the tomato and topping.
- Tomato slices
- Add moisture, acidity and fresh flavour to the canapé.
- Mayonnaise
- Adds fat and richness that balances the acidity of the tomato.
“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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