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Another Chili Sauce

A tomato-based chili sauce made with onions, green peppers, spices, sugar, and vinegar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,917 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Another Chili Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the tomatoes, onions, and green peppers.

Cook

  1. Combine all ingredients except the tomatoes in a pot.

  2. Cook until the onions and peppers are tender.

  3. Add the chopped tomatoes and boil for at least one hour.

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. Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Allspice + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Allspice + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  5. Allspice + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,331 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

What each ingredient does

Ripe tomatoes
Provide the bulk, moisture and fresh tomato flavour that the sauce is built on.
Onions
Soften during cooking and add sweetness and body to the sauce.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that gives the sauce its tang and helps preserve it.
Sugar
Balances the acidity of the vinegar and adds sweetness.

The step that matters

Boil the chopped tomatoes for at least one hour. Long simmering evaporates water and concentrates the flavours, thickening the sauce. Stopping early leaves it thin and watery, with raw-tasting tomato.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tomato, pepper, allspice, cinnamon, clove, ginger, nutmeg):

  1. Carrotfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Sweet potatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tomato, pepper, allspice, cinnamon, clove, ginger, nutmeg. 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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