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Picnic Sandwiches

A sandwich made with roasted peanuts mixed with mayonnaise and spread between thin bread slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Peanut and bread work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 97 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Picnic Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the shells and red skins from the peanuts.

  2. Chop the peanuts very fine.

Assemble

  1. Mix the chopped peanuts with a little mayonnaise dressing.

  2. Spread the mixture between thin slices of bread.

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. Peanut + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together97 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Peanuts
Provide the main filling, adding crunch, nutty flavour and richness.
Mayonnaise dressing
Binds the chopped peanuts together and adds moisture and creamy richness.
Bread
Holds the filling and gives the sandwich its structure and soft texture.

The step that matters

Chop the peanuts very fine. Fine chopping lets the peanuts spread evenly and bind with the dressing, so the filling holds together in the sandwich instead of crumbling or tearing the bread.

“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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