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Pimento Filling Fob Sandwiches

A sandwich filling made from chopped pimentos, nut meats, celery, lettuce, and mayonnaise.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,033 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Pimento Filling Fob Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the pimentos.

  2. Chop the nut meats.

  3. Chop the celery.

  4. Tear the lettuce into small bits.

Assemble

  1. Mix the pimentos, nut meats, celery, lettuce, and mayonnaise together.

  2. Spread the mixture between slices of bread.

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. Celery + lettucetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,033 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Meat + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  3. Lettuce + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together602 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  4. Celery + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,110 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Meat + lettucetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together579 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Pimentos
Add sweet, mild flavor and moisture to the filling.
Nut meats
Provide body and a crunchy texture to the filling.
Mayonnaise
Binds the chopped ingredients together and adds richness and moisture.
Celery
Adds crisp texture and a fresh, mild bite.
Lettuce
Adds moisture and a soft, fresh texture to the filling.

Swap the celery

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

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Celerythe original
  3. Tarragonfits about as well
  4. Thymefits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, lettuce, 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.