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Club House Sandwiches

A sandwich made with toasted bread, butter, ham, chicken, lettuce, tomatoes, olives, dill pickles, and mayonnaise.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Tomato and olive 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 ↓

Club House Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Toast the bread slices and lightly butter them.

  2. Place hot fried ham between two slices of buttered bread.

  3. Season cold chicken and place it between two slices of buttered plain white bread.

  4. Cut the sandwiches into desired shapes.

Assemble and serve

  1. On a plate, place one hot sandwich and one cold sandwich with a lettuce leaf, three slices of fresh tomatoes, two olives, and a small piece of dill pickle.

  2. Add one spoonful of mayonnaise on the side of each plate.

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. Tomato + olivetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,539 recipes

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

  2. Lettuce + dilltop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together159 recipes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Mayonnaise
Adds fat and moisture, giving a creamy, rich contrast to the dry toast and fillings.
Fresh tomatoes
Add moisture and gentle acidity that cut through the richness of the ham and chicken.
Butter
Adds fat and flavour to the toast and keeps the bread from soaking up moisture from the fillings.
Plain white bread
Provides the structure that holds the layered fillings together when cut.

Swap the dill

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

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Garlicfits better
  3. Thymefits better
  4. Dillthe original

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