Name: Peanut Sandwiches
Ingredients: freshly roasted peanuts; coarse sea salt; thick cream; salad dressing (optional); red raspberry jam

Why it works: Peanut and red raspberry share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4 recipes. Both carry maltol, which smells caramel, sweet. The science ↓

Peanut Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Chop the freshly roasted peanuts very fine.
Pound the chopped peanuts in a mortar until smooth.
Season the peanut mixture with coarse sea salt and thick cream.
If desired, mix in salad dressing with the cream.
For a delicious filling, combine the peanut mixture with red raspberry jam.

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.

Peanut + red raspberrytop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together4 recipes

Shared aroma: maltol (caramel, sweet).
Peanut + creamtop 21% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together490 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Cream + red raspberrytop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together26 recipes

Shared aroma: acetoin (butter, cream).