Name: Eussian Sandwiches
Ingredients: thin slices of bread; butter; fine-chopped olives; mayonnaise dressing; Neufchatel cheese or cream cheese

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 ↓

Eussian Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Butter the thin slices of bread.
Moisten the fine-chopped olives with mayonnaise dressing and spread on the buttered slices.
Spread other slices with Neufchatel cheese or cream cheese.
Press the slices together in pairs.

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.

Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,232 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Bread + cheesetop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,130 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,962 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Bread + olivetop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,091 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Olive + cheesetop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together3,802 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Bread: Provides the structure that holds the filling together in each sandwich.
Butter: Adds fat and richness and helps keep the bread from soaking up the moist filling.
Fine-chopped olives: Contribute salty, briny flavor and moisture to the olive filling.
Mayonnaise dressing: Moistens the olives and binds them into a spreadable filling.
Neufchatel cheese or cream cheese: Gives a soft, creamy, mildly tangy layer that spreads smoothly and adds richness.

“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.