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Stuffed Tomatoes

A dish of tomatoes filled with cold slaw and topped with mayonnaise dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and lettuce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,655 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Stuffed Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the tomatoes

  1. Select round, firm tomatoes and cut off the tops, reserving them as covers.

  2. Carefully scrape out the insides without breaking the tomatoes.

Fill and serve

  1. Fill each tomato with finely prepared cold slaw.

  2. Replace the tops on the tomatoes.

  3. Place the tomatoes on lettuce leaves and pour mayonnaise dressing over each.

  4. Serve on a decorated platter or individually.

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 + lettucetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,655 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Round firm tomatoes
Serve as the hollow container that holds the filling.
Cold slaw
Provides the crisp, cool filling that gives the dish its main texture.
Mayonnaise dressing
Adds moisture and richness, coating the tomatoes and slaw.

The step that matters

Carefully scrape out the insides without breaking the tomatoes. The tomato shell is thin and holds the filling, so tearing it lets the filling leak and makes the tomato hard to present whole. Scraping gently with a spoon keeps the wall intact.

“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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