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Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes

A quick scrambled egg dish flavored with tomato pulp and herbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,810 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Season the tomato pulp with onion, celery, parsley, and sweet herbs.

  2. Melt the butter in a chafing dish or skillet.

  3. Add the seasoned tomato pulp and heat until hot.

Cook and serve

  1. Stir in the beaten eggs, salt, and pepper.

  2. Cook while stirring until the mixture reaches a creamy consistency.

  3. Serve with brown bread 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. Celery + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Tomato + celerytop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Pepper + celerytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together16,012 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Onion + celerytop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,518 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 soft curds that give the scrambled mixture its body.
Tomato pulp
Adds moisture and acidity that brighten the eggs.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and helps keep the eggs tender.

The step that matters

Cook while stirring until creamy. Eggs turn from creamy to rubbery quickly when overcooked. Gentle, constant stirring over moderate heat forms small, soft curds and keeps the texture smooth.

Swap the onion

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

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

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