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Tomato Syrup

A sweetened tomato juice preserved in a bottle, later diluted with water for a refreshing drink.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 33% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,667 recipes. Both carry beta-damascenone, which smells apple, rose. The science ↓

Tomato Syrup

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Squeeze the juice from ripe tomatoes.

  2. Combine the tomato juice and sugar in a bottle.

Age and serve

  1. Seal the bottle and set it aside for a few weeks.

  2. Mix with water to serve as a refreshing beverage.

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. Tomato + sugartop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,667 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Ripe tomato juice
Provides the main liquid and tomato flavor that the syrup is built on.
Sugar
Sweetens the syrup and helps preserve it by drawing out water.

The step that matters

Sealing and setting aside for a few weeks. Sugar in high concentration binds water and limits microbial growth, so the bottle must stay sealed and undisturbed while the flavors blend. Opening it early or leaving it unsealed risks spoilage.

“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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