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Deviled Eggs with Tomatoes

A deviled egg dish featuring a tomato and onion mixture mixed into beaten eggs and served on toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Corn and tomato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,099 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Deviled Eggs with Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the tomato sauce

  1. Cook tomatoes with grated onion, salt, and pepper for a few minutes.

  2. Add butter and corn starch.

  3. Cook for five more minutes.

Finish and serve

  1. Beat eggs lightly.

  2. Stir in the tomato mixture.

  3. Serve on toast.

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. Corn + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,099 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

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

  3. Onion + tomatotop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,633 recipes

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

  4. Corn + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,324 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 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

Eggs
Beaten eggs add body and thicken the mixture as they warm with the tomatoes.
Tomatoes
Provide the main moisture, bright acidity, and the base flavor of the filling.
Butter
Adds fat for richer flavor and a smoother, rounder mouthfeel.
Corn starch
Thickens the tomato mixture as its granules swell with heat.
Grated onion
Contributes aroma and savory depth to the tomatoes.

The step that matters

Cooking the corn starch for the full five minutes. Cornstarch thickens only when heated enough for its granules to swell. Cooking it through also cooks off the raw, floury taste, and stopping early leaves the filling thin and starchy.

Swap the onion

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, butter, corn, tomato, pepper. 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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