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Sweetbreads and Tomato

A tomato stuffed with creamed sweetbreads, served with crusty rolls and coffee.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and coffee work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 123 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Sweetbreads and Tomato

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the tomato

  1. Peel the tomato.

  2. Bake the tomato at 350°F (175°C) until tender.

  3. Carefully scoop out the inside of the tomato.

Fill and serve

  1. Fill the tomato with creamed sweetbreads.

  2. Serve with crusty rolls and a cup of coffee.

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. Tomato + coffeetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together123 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

What each ingredient does

Tomato
Forms the edible shell that holds the filling, softened and sweetened by baking.
Creamed sweetbreads
Provides the rich, creamy, savory filling that makes up the main part of the dish.

The step that matters

Carefully scoop out the inside of the tomato. The baked tomato wall is soft and can tear easily. Keeping the shell intact matters because it must hold the creamed filling without collapsing or leaking.

“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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