Name: Jelly Sandwiches
Ingredients: three tablespoons crabapple jelly; 3 tablespoons cottage cheese; two kinds together; 3 long thin slices of bread buttered

Why it works: Cottage cheese and bread work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 72 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

Jelly Sandwiches

Ingredients

three tablespoons crabapple jelly
3 tablespoons cottage cheese
two kinds together
3 long thin slices of bread buttered

Directions

Prepare

Mix three tablespoons crabapple jelly with three tablespoons cottage cheese.
If the cottage cheese is too stiff, stir in a little cream.
Butter the white bread slices.

Assemble

Spread jelly on half of the slices.
Spread cottage cheese on the remaining slices.
Assemble the sandwiches by placing the two kinds together.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

553Calories

24 gProtein

6 gFat

98 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 2 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Cottage Cheese	1/2 cup (113g) 2%	98

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

By North End Club (Chicago, Ill.). 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.

Cottage cheese + breadtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together72 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Crabapple jelly: Adds sweetness and tart fruit flavour to the filling.
Cottage cheese: Provides a soft, creamy, mildly tangy layer that contrasts with the jelly.
Bread: Gives structure to hold the filling and a soft texture for the sandwich.

“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.