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Chocolate Sandwiches

A sandwich made with buttered bread and a chocolate filling.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Chocolate Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the bread

  1. Butter the slices of white bread and trim off the crusts.

  2. Cut the bread into the desired shape.

Make the filling

  1. Grate the bitter chocolate and sweeten it with granulated sugar to taste.

  2. Melt a small piece of butter and mix in the chocolate.

  3. Remove from heat and let cool.

  4. If the filling is too thick, moisten it with a little cream before spreading between the 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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Chocolate + creamtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Chocolate + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,404 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Bitter chocolate
Provides the main flavour and the body of the chocolate filling.
Butter
Melts into the chocolate to give the filling a smooth, spreadable texture.
Granulated sugar
Sweetens the bitter chocolate to the cook's taste.
Cream
Adds moisture to loosen a filling that has become too thick.

The step that matters

Let the filling cool before spreading. Chocolate mixed with melted butter is still warm and loose, and it sets firmer as it cools. Spreading it too early can soak into the bread and make the sandwiches soggy, while cooling lets it hold its shape.

“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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