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Excellent Canned Tomatoes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and tomato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 548 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Excellent Canned Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Select smooth, well-shaped apple tomatoes.

  2. Scald and carefully skin the tomatoes.

  3. Remove the stem with a penknife without cutting the tomato.

  4. Place the tomatoes in glass jars, alternating stem and blossom ends.

  5. Pour the juice from the peeled tomatoes over them until nearly full.

  6. Submerge the jars in a kettle of cold water.

  7. Cook until the tomatoes are hot throughout.

  8. Seal the jars, then remove the cover after five minutes to let gas escape.

  9. Fill with juice and seal again, ensuring jars are full to the cover.

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. Apple + tomatotop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together548 recipes

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

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

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