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Tomato Mayonnaise

A creamy tomato-based mayonnaise used as a sauce for cold fish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Tomato Mayonnaise

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggs

  1. Hard boil the eggs for 10 minutes, then cool in water and remove the shells.

Make the sauce

  1. Place the yolks in a bowl and beat finely, adding butter, sugar, salt, and pepper.

  2. Finely grind the onion and garlic, then mix with enough milk to create a thick cream.

  3. Stir in the tomato sauce and vinegar for a few minutes.

Serve

  1. Chill and pour over cold fish, then decorate with salad and egg whites.

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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Pepper + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together17,451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Pepper + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,090 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Clove + garlictop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Egg yolks
Yolks beaten with butter give the sauce its rich, smooth body.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, softening the texture of the beaten yolks.
Milk
Mixed with the ground onion and garlic to form a thick, creamy base.
Tomato sauce
Supplies the tomato flavour and colour that define the sauce.
Vinegar
Adds a sharp acidity that brightens the rich, creamy sauce.

Swap the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, butter, sugar, pepper, onion, garlic, milk):

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, butter, sugar, pepper, onion, garlic, milk. 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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