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Baked Strawberry Tomato

Baked strawberry tomato is a roasted tomato dish seasoned with salt, pepper, breadcrumbs, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Baked Strawberry Tomato

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Select the fruit when perfectly ripe.

  2. Scald and remove the skin.

  3. Season with salt and pepper.

Bake and serve

  1. Sprinkle with bread crumbs and bits of butter.

  2. Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven for 10 to 15 minutes.

  3. Serve on a hot platter.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

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

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

  4. Strawberry + tomatotop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together78 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Strawberry + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,149 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Strawberry tomatoes
Provide the main body and juicy, slightly sweet flesh that softens under heat.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, golden topping that browns in the oven and soaks up released juices.
Butter
Adds fat that helps the crumbs brown and gives a rich, savory flavor.

The step that matters

Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven for 10 to 15 minutes. Baking too long lets the tomatoes collapse and release too much liquid, which keeps the crumb topping soggy instead of golden. Watching the time keeps the tomatoes tender and the topping crisp.

Swap the strawberry

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, pepper, bread, butter):

  1. Cherryfits better
  2. Plumfits better
  3. Mangofits better
  4. Strawberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, pepper, bread, butter. 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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