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Breakfast Akd Supper Dishes

Sausage and tomato mixture baked in hollowed tomatoes served on fried bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and parsley are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,398 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Breakfast Akd Supper Dishes

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a hot oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the tomatoes

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Wash the tomatoes, remove the stems, and cut off the tops.

  3. Scoop out some pulp from each tomato without breaking the skin.

Make the filling

  1. Remove the sausage skins and mix the sausage meat with the tomato pulp, breadcrumbs, and parsley in a bowl.

  2. Add the egg yolk and stock to the mixture and combine well.

Bake and serve

  1. Fill each tomato with the sausage mixture.

  2. Place the filled tomatoes in a baking dish and bake for about 20 minutes until cooked through.

  3. Serve the tomatoes on fried bread slices.

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. Tomato + parsleytop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,398 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  4. Bread + parsleytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Parsley + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,765 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Tomatoes
Hold the filling and soften into a juicy, tender base as they bake.
Sausages
Provide the savoury meat that forms the body and flavour of the filling.
Bread crumbs
Absorb juices and help bind the sausage mixture so it holds its shape.
Egg yolk
Binds the filling and helps it set as it cooks.
Stock
Adds moisture and savoury flavour to the filling.

The step that matters

Scoop out the pulp without breaking the skin. The tomato shell must stay intact to hold the filling; a torn skin lets juices leak out and the filling spill during baking.

Swap the tomato

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, parsley, egg. 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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