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Tomato and Egg Sandwiches

A sandwich made by cooking a tomato and egg mixture and spreading it on buttered bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Tomato and Egg Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Mix the egg, butter, tomato pulp, salt, and pepper.

  2. Cook the mixture as you would for scrambled eggs.

  3. Spread the cooked mixture on a plate to cool.

Assemble and serve

  1. Spread the cooled mixture on slices of bread and butter.

  2. Cut the sandwiches neatly and serve.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  3. Tomato + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,013 recipes

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

  4. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set when cooked, giving the filling its body and binding it together.
Butter
Adds richness and a soft, smooth texture to the cooked egg.
Tomato pulp
Adds moisture and bright, slightly acidic tomato flavour to the filling.

The step that matters

Cook the mixture as you would for scrambled eggs. Cooking gently over low heat and stopping while the eggs are still soft keeps the filling creamy. High heat or overcooking makes the egg firm and dry, and excess liquid from the tomato can make it watery.

Swap the tomato

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Chivefits about as well
  4. Tomatothe original

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