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Tomato Mustard

A tomato-based mustard condiment made by boiling tomatoes, seasoning, and bottling with oil.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 17,451 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Tomato Mustard

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pulp

  1. Cut the tomatoes into small pieces.

  2. Boil the tomatoes until tender.

  3. Rub the tomatoes through a sieve to extract the pulp.

  4. Boil the pulp until nearly dry.

Season

  1. Add cayenne pepper, black pepper, cloves, mustard seed, and salt.

  2. Boil the mixture for a few moments, then let it cool.

  3. If needed, add more salt before the final boil.

Bottle

  1. Bottle the mixture and cork it tightly.

  2. Pour sweet oil on top of each bottle before corking to exclude air.

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. Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

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

  3. Clove + mustardtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,829 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyleugenol (clove, spice).

  4. Pepper + mustardtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

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

  5. Tomato + mustardtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,482 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

Tomatoes
Form the bulk of the condiment; cooking and straining turn them into a thick pulp.
Mustard seed
Adds pungent, sharp flavour and a slight texture to the sauce.
Sweet oil
Forms a layer on top of the bottled mixture that keeps air from reaching it.

The step that matters

Boil the pulp until nearly dry. Removing most of the water concentrates the flavour and thickens the mixture. If it stays too wet, it is more likely to spoil in the bottle.

Swap the tomato

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

  1. Horseradishfits better
  2. Lettucefits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, clove, mustard. 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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