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Peanut Sandwiches

A sandwich made with roasted peanuts and Philadelphia cream cheese spread between bread slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Martin, Maria Ewing, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Peanut and cream cheese work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 163 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Peanut Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Shell and grate the roasted peanuts finely.

  2. Add the Philadelphia cream cheese and mix to a smooth paste.

Assemble

  1. Spread the paste on thin slices of bread, put two slices together, trim edges, and cut into small pieces.

  2. Alternatively, butter and cut thin slices of brown bread, cover with finely chopped peanuts, and salt.

By Martin, Maria Ewing, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp. 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.

Explore the science

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. Peanut + cream cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together163 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Roasted peanuts
Provide the main filling, with flavor and a paste-like texture when finely grated.
Cream cheese
Binds the grated peanuts into a smooth, spreadable paste.

The step that matters

Mix to a smooth paste. If the peanuts are not finely grated, the mixture stays grainy and will not spread evenly or hold the bread together well. Grating finely and mixing thoroughly gives an even, spreadable texture.

“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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