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Ripe Tomato Preserves

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 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 ↓

Ripe Tomato Preserves

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the tomatoes and let them sit overnight.

  2. Drain off the syrup and boil it, skimming off any foam.

  3. Add the tomatoes to the boiling syrup and cook gently for 20 minutes.

  4. Remove the tomatoes with a skimmer and spread them on dishes to cool.

  5. Boil the syrup until it thickens.

  6. Pack the tomatoes into jars and pour the hot syrup over them.

  7. Seal the jars while hot.

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

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