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Sliced Tomato Pickles

Pickled sliced tomatoes seasoned with pepper, mace, cloves, mustard, cinnamon, celery seed, green pepper, onions, horseradish, sugar, and vinegar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Clove and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,189 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Sliced Tomato Pickles

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Scald the sliced tomatoes in salt and water until tender.

  2. In a large bowl, mix together the ground pepper, mace, cloves, mustard, cinnamon, celery seed or salt, green pepper, onions, horseradish, and sugar.

Pack and cover

  1. Layer the tomatoes and the mixture in a jar until all ingredients are used.

  2. Cover the layers with good vinegar.

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 + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Mustard + celerytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,169 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Tomato + celerytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

What each ingredient does

Tomatoes
Form the bulk of the pickle and soften when scalded, becoming tender.
Sugar
Adds sweetness that balances the sharpness of the vinegar.
Onions
Add pungent flavour and body to the pickle mixture.
Horseradish
Contributes sharp, pungent heat to the pickle.
Good vinegar
Provides acidity that sharpens the flavour and helps preserve the pickle.

Swap the mace

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, pepper, clove, mustard, cinnamon, celery, onion):

  1. Allspicefits better
  2. Cuminfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Macethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, pepper, clove, mustard, cinnamon, celery, onion. 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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