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Club House Sandwiches

A sandwich made with toasted bread, mayonnaise, lettuce, cold chicken, and bacon or ham.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and ham are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,536 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Club House Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Spread mayonnaise dressing on 2 slices of toasted bread.

  2. Top with lettuce leaves.

  3. Add thin slices of cold chicken.

  4. Layer thin slices of cold bacon or minced ham on top.

  5. Add more lettuce leaves.

  6. Cover with the remaining slices of toast spread with mayonnaise.

  7. Garnish with additional lettuce leaves and mayonnaise.

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. Bread + hamtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  2. Chicken + hamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,497 recipes

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

  3. Bread + chickentop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,258 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

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

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Lettuce + chickentop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,421 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Mayonnaise dressing
Adds moisture and richness, binding the layers together and softening the toast.
Toasted bread
Provides a crisp, sturdy base that holds the filling without going soggy quickly.
Cold chicken
Supplies the main protein, giving the sandwich its substance and mild savoury flavour.
Cold bacon or minced ham
Adds salty, savoury flavour and a contrasting texture to the chicken.

Swap the lettuce

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

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Onionfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, chicken, ham. 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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