Name: Timbales De Tomates Au Noix
Ingredients: savoury aspic jelly; tomatoes; walnut puree; chervil; whipped cream; grated horseradish; finely shredded endive or other green salad

Why it works: Chervil and endive share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 75 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Timbales De Tomates Au Noix

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare a savoury aspic jelly and line small timbale molds with it.
Place a sprig of chervil in the bottom of each mold.
Fill the molds with alternate layers of peeled tomato slices and walnut puree, adding aspic between layers.
Allow each layer to set before adding the next.
Keep the molds on ice until fully set, then turn out the timbales.
Top each timbale with whipped cream flavored with grated horseradish and garnish with shredded endive.

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.

Chervil + endivetop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together75 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Chervil + horseradishtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together20 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Walnut + endivetop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together39 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).
Horseradish + endivetop 3% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together11 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).
Walnut + horseradishtop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together259 recipes

Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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 (walnut, chervil, cream, horseradish, endive):

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Fit is the average pairing score against walnut, chervil, cream, horseradish, endive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.