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Baked Tqmato Toast

A baked toast topped with a tomato and milk mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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 ↓

Baked Tqmato Toast

Ingredients

Directions

Make the tomato sauce

  1. Cook the tomatoes with pepper and salt gently for 15 minutes.

  2. Rub the mixture through a colander.

  3. Return the mixture to the fire.

  4. Mix the sugar with the tomato mixture.

Make the milk sauce

  1. In another saucepan, heat the milk with baking soda.

  2. Add the butter mixed with flour and stir for 1 minute.

  3. Combine the mixture with the milk.

Assemble and bake

  1. Dip the toasted bread in boiling salted water.

  2. Butter the bread.

  3. Pack the bread into a pudding dish.

  4. Pour the tomato mixture over the bread.

  5. Cover the dish.

  6. Bake for 10 minutes.

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Tomatoes
Provide the main flavor and moisture, cooked down into the sauce base.
Milk
Forms a smooth, creamy base that softens the tomato sauce.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, and with flour helps thicken the milk sauce.
Flour
Thickens the butter and milk mixture so the sauce holds together.
Bread
Soaks up the sauce and forms the body of the dish.

The step that matters

Combining the butter-flour mixture with the hot milk. Stirring the butter and flour together before adding liquid cooks out raw flour taste and lets the mixture thicken smoothly; adding the milk too fast or without stirring can leave lumps.

Swap the tomato

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Sweet potatofits better
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, milk, butter, flour, sugar, 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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