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To Preserve Tomatas

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Clove and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,038 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

To Preserve Tomatas

Oven, in the book's wordsA cool oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Squeeze tomatoes to remove excess juice and place in a stone jar with butter.

  2. Cover tightly and place in the oven after baking bread; leave overnight.

  3. Rub through a fine sieve and add capsicum vinegar, garlic, salt, and ginger to taste.

  4. Store in small bottles to prevent spoilage.

  5. For another method, blanch and peel tomatoes, remove seeds, and press out juice.

  6. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spatula until dried.

  7. Pulp the tomatoes and add fresh capsicums, cayenne, ginger, and salt.

  8. Transfer to wide-mouthed bottles and cover with clarified suet.

  9. For a third method, add ox-heel jelly when tomatoes are nearly dried and stir until thickened.

  10. Roll and cut into squares or mold and dry in a cool oven.

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. Clove + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,038 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Tomato + capsicumtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,520 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,076 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Garlic + gingertop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,402 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Capsicum + clovetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,438 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

Swap the ginger

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, butter, capsicum, vinegar, clove, garlic):

  1. Cuminfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Basilfits better
  4. Gingerthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, butter, capsicum, vinegar, clove, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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