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Bean or Pea Sandwiches

A sandwich made by spreading a mixture of bean or pea pulp, cheese, nuts, and seasonings on bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and vinegar work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 922 recipes. Both carry 3-methylbutanol, which smells malty, whiskey. The science ↓

Bean or Pea Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. In a bowl, combine the bean or pea pulp, curd cheese or grated cheese, and chopped nuts.

  2. Season with salt, pepper, and enough vinegar or dressing to achieve a spreadable consistency.

  3. Mix well until all ingredients are combined.

Assemble

  1. Spread the mixture on bread to make sandwiches.

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. Cheese + vinegartop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together922 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methylbutanol (malty, whiskey).

  2. Pepper + vinegartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,814 recipes

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

  3. Cheese + peppertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,861 recipes

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

  4. Cheese + nutstop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together101 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl decanoate (grape, waxy).

  5. Nuts + peppertop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together187 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

What each ingredient does

Bean or pea pulp
Provides the bulk and body of the filling.
Curd cheese or grated american cheese
Binds the filling and adds richness and savory flavor.
Chopped nuts
Adds crunch and texture to the soft filling.

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cheese, pepper, vinegar):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Sesamefits better
  3. Soybeanfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, pepper, vinegar. 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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