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Stuffed Baked Tomatoes

Tomatoes hollowed and filled with a savory mixture, then baked until cooked.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Stuffed Baked Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Cut a slice from the stem end of each tomato and scoop out the pulp.

  2. In a bowl, mix the tomato pulp, chopped onion, bread crumbs, sweet cream, salt, and pepper.

Stuff and bake

  1. Fill the tomato shells with the mixture and replace the tops.

  2. Place the tomatoes in a buttered baking dish and drop a small lump of butter on each.

  3. Bake at 400°F (200°C) for about 30 minutes until well done.

  4. Serve in the same dish.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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

  3. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Tomato + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

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

  5. Tomato + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,013 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

Tomatoes
Hold the filling as their shells cook, and release moisture that softens the stuffing.
Bread crumbs
Absorb liquid from the pulp and cream, giving the filling body so it holds its shape.
Sweet cream
Adds moisture and richness, helping the filling stay soft and creamy as it bakes.
Onion
Adds savory depth and aroma to the filling as it cooks.
Butter
Adds fat that promotes browning on the tomato tops and enriches the flavor.

Swap the tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (onion, bread, cream, pepper, butter):

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Chivefits about as well
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against onion, bread, cream, pepper, butter. 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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