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Raisin Sandwich

A sandwich made with raisins, walnuts, whipped cream or egg white, and salt, spread between bread slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Raisin and walnut work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 647 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Raisin Sandwich

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Chop the raisins and walnuts finely.

  2. Mix the chopped raisins and walnuts with whipped cream or beaten egg white.

  3. Season the mixture with salt.

Assemble and cut

  1. Spread the mixture between thin slices of bread.

  2. Cut the sandwiches into desired shapes.

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. Raisin + walnuttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together647 recipes

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

  2. Raisin + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,111 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Walnut + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together714 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Walnut + creamtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,982 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

  5. Cream + breadtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,789 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

Seeded raisins
Add natural sweetness and a chewy texture to the filling.
Walnuts
Add crunch and a nutty flavor that contrasts with the soft filling.
Whipped cream or egg white
Give the filling a soft, moist, spreadable body.

Swap the raisin

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

  1. Figfits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against walnut, cream, 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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