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Tomato and Nut Sandwich

A sandwich of white bread with sliced tomato, hickory nuts, pepper, salt, and mayonnaise, served with olives.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Tomato and Nut Sandwich

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Butter one side of each slice of bread.

  2. Place a thin layer of sliced tomatoes on one slice.

  3. Sprinkle with chopped hickory nuts, pepper, and salt.

  4. Add mayonnaise dressing on top.

  5. Top with the second slice of bread, buttered side down.

  6. Cut and serve with an olive.

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. Tomato + peppertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  3. Bread + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Bread + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,013 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + olivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Tomato
Provides moisture and a fresh, acidic flavour that balances the rich dressing.
Mayonnaise dressing
Adds fat and moisture, binding the filling and softening the bread.
Hickory nuts
Add crunch and a rich, nutty flavour against the soft bread and tomato.
White bread
Forms the structure that holds the filling, with butter adding fat and flavour to the outside.

Swap the nuts

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, tomato, pepper, 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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