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Stuffed Tomatoes

A dish of tomatoes filled with a mixture of peas, nuts, and mayonnaise.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Walnut and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 491 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Stuffed Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Drain the liquid from the can of peas and mix with the bulk of the peas and chopped nuts.

  2. Dress the mixture with Mayonnaise or French dressing.

Stuff and serve

  1. Cut off the tops of the tomatoes without breaking them and scoop out the insides.

  2. Stuff the tomatoes with the pea and nut mixture.

  3. Serve the stuffed tomatoes on lettuce leaves.

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. Walnut + lettucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together491 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Peas + lettucetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,293 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

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

  4. Peas + tomatotop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,058 recipes

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

  5. Walnut + tomatotop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together498 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

French peas
Provide the bulk of the filling and a mild, sweet vegetable flavor.
Nuts
Add crunch and a contrasting texture to the soft filling.
Mayonnaise or french dressing
Adds moisture and fat, binding the filling and seasoning it.
Tomatoes
Serve as the edible hollow shell holding the filling.

The step that matters

Cut off the tops of the tomatoes without breaking them. Tomato skins and flesh are thin and delicate, so a careful cut and gentle scooping keep the shell intact to hold the filling without it tearing or collapsing.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (peas, walnut, lettuce):

  1. Beetrootfits better
  2. Cucumberfits better
  3. Spinachfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peas, walnut, lettuce. 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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