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Frozen Stuffed Tomatoes

A dish of tomatoes filled with a mashed tomato mixture, frozen, then topped with cold mayonnaise.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Frozen Stuffed Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the tomatoes

  1. Cut the tops off the tomatoes and scoop out the insides.

  2. Mash the tomato flesh and mix with salt, pepper, and lemon juice.

  3. Freeze the mixture.

Fill and serve

  1. Keep the tomato cups on ice and fill them with the frozen mixture.

  2. Pour 1 tablespoon of very cold mayonnaise dressing over each stuffed tomato.

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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + lemontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,592 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Tomatoes
Form the cups and supply the main body of the filling.
Mayonnaise dressing
Adds richness and a creamy fat layer over the cold filling.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the flavor of the tomato mixture.

The step that matters

Keep the tomato cups on ice and fill them with the frozen mixture. The filling must stay frozen while the cups are cold. If the tomatoes warm up, the frozen mixture softens and loses its shape, and the cups can collapse or leak.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, lemon):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Kalefits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, lemon. 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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