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Hachic Sandwich

A sandwich with ham, chicken, lettuce, mayonnaise, pickles, olives, and tomatoes on buttered bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,539 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Hachic Sandwich

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the bread

  1. Cut three slices of bread quite thin.

  2. Butter each slice of bread.

Assemble

  1. On one slice, spread the sliced ham.

  2. On another slice, spread the sliced chicken.

  3. Spread a little mayonnaise dressing on the lettuce leaves.

  4. Place the lettuce leaves dressing side down on the meat slices.

  5. Stack the slices with the plain slice on top and trim off the crusts.

Serve

  1. Serve on a lettuce leaf and garnish with pickles, olives, and tomatoes.

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. Olive + tomatotop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Lettuce + olivetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,580 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  3. Lettuce + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  5. Bread + hamtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 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

Bread
Forms the structure that holds the layered fillings together.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, and keeps the bread from soaking up moisture from the fillings.
Sliced ham
Provides savory, salty flavour and a meaty filling layer.
Sliced chicken
Provides mild protein and bulk for the filling.
Tender lettuce leaves
Adds crisp, cool moisture and freshness between the meat and bread.
Mayonnaise dressing
Adds fat and creaminess that moistens the lettuce and fillings.

Swap the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, butter, ham, chicken, olive, tomato):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Onionfits better
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, butter, ham, chicken, olive, tomato. 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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