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Raw Tomatoes with Whipped Cream

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Tomato and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 32% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,034 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Raw Tomatoes with Whipped Cream

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pare the tomatoes carefully without scalding them.

  2. Set the tomatoes on ice until chilled through.

  3. When ready to serve, sprinkle the tomatoes lightly with salt and paprika.

  4. Heap the tomatoes with whipped cream.

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 + creamtop 32% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,034 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

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