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Lettuce Saxdwich

A sandwich made with white bread, lettuce, mayonnaise, and chopped nuts.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and nuts work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 174 recipes. Both carry 2-nonanone, which smells fruity, floral. The science ↓

Lettuce Saxdwich

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Butter both slices of white bread.

  2. Place one piece of lettuce on one slice of bread.

  3. Spread the lettuce with rich mayonnaise dressing.

  4. Sprinkle chopped nuts on top of the mayonnaise.

  5. Top with the second slice of bread and serve.

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. Lettuce + nutstop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together174 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  2. Bread + lettucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together602 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Bread + nutstop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together174 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

What each ingredient does

White bread
Provides the structure that holds the sandwich together and soaks up little moisture when buttered.
Lettuce
Adds a crisp, cool texture and fresh moisture between the bread slices.
Rich mayonnaise dressing
Adds fat and creaminess that moistens the bread and lettuce and carries flavor.
Chopped nuts
Adds a crunchy texture that contrasts with the soft bread and creamy dressing.

Swap the nuts

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

  1. Chestnutfits better
  2. Lentilsfits better
  3. Chickpeafits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, lettuce. 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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