Name: Stuffed Tomatoes
Ingredients: 6 large tomatoes; 1 large apple; 1 pint peanuts; celery to taste; good dressing

Why it works: Tomato and celery are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,377 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Stuffed Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

Scoop out the centers of the tomatoes.

Make the filling

Run the apple, peanuts, and celery through a meat chopper.
Moisten the mixture with dressing.

Assemble

Fill the scooped tomatoes with the mixture.

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.

Tomato + celerytop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,377 recipes

Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).
Tomato + peanuttop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together315 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Apple + celerytop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,155 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).
Peanut + celerytop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together148 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).
Tomato + appletop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together548 recipes

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