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Devonshire Cream Sandwiches

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,789 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Devonshire Cream Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Spread Devonshire cream on thin slices of buttered bread.

  2. Add strawberry jam or any other jam on top.

  3. Press the slices together to form 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. Bread + creamtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,789 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Bread + strawberry jamtop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  3. Cream + strawberry jamtop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together143 recipes

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

Swap the strawberry jam

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, cream):

  1. Raspberryfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Strawberry jamthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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