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Cheese and Pepper Sandwiches

A sandwich made with cream cheese and green peppers, seasoned with mustard, salt, and pepper, served on thin Boston brown bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and mustard are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,430 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Cheese and Pepper Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the green peppers.

  2. Mix the chopped peppers with the soft cream cheese.

  3. Season the mixture with dry mustard, salt, and pepper.

Assemble

  1. Spread the mixture on thin slices of Boston brown bread.

  2. Form the slices into sandwiches.

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. Pepper + mustardtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

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

  2. Mustard + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,484 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

  4. Cream cheese + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together166 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Cream cheese + mustardtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together200 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Green peppers
Provide fresh, slightly bitter, crisp texture and vegetable flavor to the filling.
Soft cream cheese
Forms the creamy base that binds the filling and moistens the bread.
Boston brown bread
Supplies the sliced base that holds the filling and gives a mildly sweet, malty flavor.

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, cream cheese, bread):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, cream cheese, bread. 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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