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Lister Sandwich

A sandwich made with a Lister roll, cooked chicken, cucumber, hard‑boiled egg, and olives.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cucumber and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,611 recipes. Both carry 2-methylbutyl acetate, which smells fruit. The science ↓

Lister Sandwich

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Slice the Lister roll in half.

  2. Layer the cooked chicken on the bottom half.

  3. Add sliced cucumber on top of the chicken.

  4. Place the sliced hard-boiled egg on the cucumber.

  5. Top with olives and cover with the other half of the roll.

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. Cucumber + olivetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methylbutyl acetate (fruit).

  2. Chicken + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,888 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

  3. Chicken + cucumbertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  4. Cucumber + eggtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,346 recipes

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

  5. Chicken + eggtop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,991 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

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

What each ingredient does

Lister roll
Provides the bread base that holds the filling together.
Cooked chicken
Supplies the main protein and savory bulk of the filling.
Cucumber
Adds moisture and a cool, crisp texture.
Hard-boiled egg
Adds richness and a soft, firm texture to the filling.

Swap the cucumber

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, egg, olive):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Cucumberthe original

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

“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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