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Cheese and Nut Sandwich

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Landmarks Club · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Cheese and Nut Sandwich

Ingredients

Directions

  1. A can of soft, rich cheese that you can mash walnuts in. Stir them well together (having chopped the walnuts) ana spread between thin slices of bread a day old. Very nice.

  2. Mrs. E. C. Bangs, Pasadena. CHEESE SANDWICH.

  3. Grate desired amount of cream cheese, add a dash of cay- enne pepper and soften with a little melted butter. Spread rather thin between thin slices of buttered bread.

  4. Mrs. George Sinsabaugh. CHICKEN SANDWICH.

  5. Chop cold, cooked chicken very fine. Pound until smooth, adding gradually enough thick, sweet cream to make a paste. To each pint add a teaspoonful of salt, a dash of pepper, a teaspoonfnl of onion and a tablespoonfnl of lemon juice. Spread between thin slices of buttered bread.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

18Calories
1 gProtein
0 gFat
5 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Landmarks Club. 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. See the original page.

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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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

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