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Raw Tomatoes and Whipped Cream

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,013 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Raw Tomatoes and Whipped Cream

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Peel the tomatoes carefully and chill them on ice.

  2. When ready to serve, cut each tomato in half.

  3. Sprinkle the tomato halves lightly with coarse sea salt and paprika.

  4. Heap each half with whipped cream.

  5. Serve with heated and buttered crackers, cream cheese, or thin slices of buttered graham bread.

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.

Explore the science

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 + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,013 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Cream + cream cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,087 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  3. Cream cheese + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together166 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Tomato + cream cheesetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together446 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  5. Cream + breadtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,789 recipes

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

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

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, cream cheese, bread):

  1. Chivefits better
  2. Potatofits about as well
  3. Onionfits about as well
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, cream cheese, bread. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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