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Omelette, with Tomatoes

A lightly cooked egg omelette folded over hot stewed tomatoes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118,967 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Omelette, with Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Beat the eggs just enough to break up the yolks.

  2. Heat the butter in a frying pan until melted.

Cook and fill

  1. Pour the eggs into the pan and shake to loosen from the sides and bottom.

  2. When the eggs are set in the middle, cover one half with hot stewed tomatoes.

  3. Fold the other half over to enclose the tomatoes.

Serve

  1. Invert the pan onto a hot dish to 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. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Butter + tomatotop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,918 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Egg + tomatotop 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 a tender structure that holds the omelette together around the filling.
Butter
Coats the pan so the eggs release cleanly and add richness to the flavour.
Stewed tomatoes
Provide moisture and acidity that contrast with the rich, set eggs.

The step that matters

Shaking the eggs while they set. Shaking loosens the eggs from the pan so they do not stick. Eggs cooked over high heat without movement can toughen and brown unevenly, so the middle should set gently.

Swap the tomato

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

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Leekfits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, butter. 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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