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Cheese Sandwiches

A simple sandwich made with light bread, butter, and American cheese, toasted until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter 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 ↓

Cheese Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Cut the bread into slices ¼ inch thick.

  2. Trim off the crusts and butter one side of each slice.

Assemble and bake

  1. Place a thin layer of American cheese between two slices, buttered sides facing out.

  2. Toast the sandwiches in a preheated oven at 400°F (200°C) until the cheese melts and the bread is golden brown on both sides.

  3. Serve immediately.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Bread + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Light bread
Forms the structure and crisp golden outside of the sandwich.
Butter
Adds fat that helps the bread brown evenly and crisp in the oven.
American cheese
Melts into a soft, gooey filling that holds the sandwich together.

The step that matters

Toasting until the bread is golden on both sides. Butter on the outside of the bread browns and crisps it, while the heat melts the cheese inside. Removing the sandwiches too early leaves pale bread and unmelted cheese, while leaving them too long can scorch the butter.

“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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