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Broiled Eggs

Broiled eggs cooked with tomatoes, oil, salt, pimento, and herbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 34% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,890 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Broiled Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chop the tomatoes and place them in a frying pan with boiling oil.

  2. Add salt, minced pimento, and herbs, then mix thoroughly.

  3. Break the eggs over the mixture.

  4. Stir briskly over heat until the eggs are set.

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 + eggtop 34% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,890 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 into soft curds that bind the tomato mixture together and give the dish its body.
Tomatoes
Release moisture and juice that cook into the base, adding softness and a fresh acidity.
Boiling oil
Carries heat quickly into the tomatoes and eggs and adds richness to the mixture.

The step that matters

Stir briskly until the eggs are set. Eggs turn from liquid to curds within a narrow heat range, so stirring keeps them moving and evenly cooked. Leaving them still or overheating can make them tough or dry.

“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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