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Tomatoes Stuffed with Cabbage

Tomatoes stuffed with a cabbage, onion, bread crumb, and cream mixture, baked and garnished with parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Cabbage and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,081 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Tomatoes Stuffed with Cabbage

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 the filling

  1. Cut a thin slice from the smooth side of each tomato and remove the pulp with a teaspoon.

  2. Chop the cabbage and onion finely, then mix with bread crumbs, tomato pulp, pepper, salt, sugar, and sweet cream.

Bake and serve

  1. Fill the tomatoes with the mixture, replace the slice, and place them stem end down in a buttered baking dish.

  2. Brush the tomatoes with melted butter and bake at 350°F (175°C) for 30 minutes or until thoroughly cooked.

  3. Arrange on a hot platter and garnish each tomato with a sprig of parsley and a lump of butter.

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. Cabbage + peppertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,081 recipes

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

  2. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Cabbage + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,001 recipes

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

  5. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Tomatoes
Hollowed shells that hold the filling and soften as they bake, becoming tender and juicy.
Cabbage
Provides the bulk of the filling and a mild, slightly sweet vegetable body when cooked.
Bread crumbs
Absorb liquid from the pulp and cream, helping the filling hold together rather than run.
Sweet cream
Adds richness and moisture to the filling, softening it as it bakes.
Onion
Adds savory depth and aroma to the filling as it cooks.

The step that matters

Bake until thoroughly cooked. The cabbage and onion in the filling must cook through. Baking for the full time at 350°F lets the filling heat evenly and become tender, so check that it is soft before serving.

Swap the cabbage

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, onion, bread, pepper, sugar, cream, butter):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Cabbagethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, onion, bread, pepper, sugar, cream, butter. 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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