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Cucumber Sandwiches I

Yummy little party sandwiches with cocktail rye bread and cream cheese.

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream cheese and cucumber work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 134 recipes mention both. Both carry hexyl acetate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

The recipe

15 servings
Prep15 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. In a medium bowl, beat the whipped cream cheese with the dry Italian-style dressing mix until evenly combined and smooth.

  2. Lay the cocktail rye bread slices out on a board or tray, keeping them in a single layer.

  3. Spread the cream cheese mixture thickly over each slice of rye bread, reaching the edges.

  4. Arrange the thinly sliced cucumber over the spread on each sandwich, overlapping the slices slightly.

  5. Chill the assembled sandwiches for about 10 minutes so the spread firms up before serving.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cream cheese + cucumbertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together134 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexyl acetate (fruity, apple).

  2. Cream cheese + breadtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together166 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Rye + breadtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together59 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Bread + cucumbertop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together340 recipes

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

  5. Cream cheese + ryetop 12% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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