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Guava and Cheese Sandwiches

A sandwich made with guava jelly and cream cheese on buttered bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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 ↓

Guava and Cheese Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the slices

  1. Butter 12 slices of bread.

  2. Spread 6 slices with guava jelly.

  3. Spread the other 6 slices with cream cheese.

Assemble

  1. Combine a slice with guava jelly and a slice with cream cheese to make a sandwich.

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. Cream cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Bread + cream cheesetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together166 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Guava + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Bread + guavatop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetylpyrazine (roast).

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

What each ingredient does

Bread
Provides the structure that holds the fillings together.
Guava jelly
Adds sweetness and a fruity flavor.
Cream cheese
Adds a creamy texture and a mild tang.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the bread.

Swap the guava

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

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Applefits better
  4. Guavathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, cream cheese, butter. 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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