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Tomato Omelet

A tomato-based omelet topped with a seasoned tomato sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Tomato Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Make the tomato sauce

  1. Cook the tomatoes.

  2. Rub the cooked tomatoes through a colander.

  3. Season the tomato puree with butter, coarse sea salt, pepper, and sugar.

Make and serve the omelet

  1. In a bowl, whisk together the eggs and milk.

  2. Cook the egg mixture in a skillet, forming two rolls.

  3. Place the omelet rolls on a platter.

  4. Pour the seasoned tomato sauce over the omelet rolls.

  5. Serve hot.

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.

Explore the science

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Milk + tomatotop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,226 recipes

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

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set into the soft structure of the omelet rolls as they cook.
Milk
Adds moisture so the eggs stay tender rather than dry and rubbery.
Tomatoes
Provide the main body and acidity of the sauce once cooked and pureed.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the seasoned tomato sauce.
Sugar
Adds a touch of sweetness that balances the tomatoes' acidity.

The step that matters

Cooking the egg mixture in the skillet. Eggs cooked over high heat toughen and turn rubbery as proteins tighten and squeeze out water. Gentle heat keeps the rolls soft and moist.

Swap the tomato

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

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