Why it works: Cream cheese and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,087 recipes. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. The science ↓
Bar-le-duc Sandwiches
Ingredients
Directions
Mix cream cheese with enough sweet cream to soften it.
Add Bar le Duc to flavor the cheese and create a paste.
Spread the mixture between slices of thin, unbuttered bread.
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.
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Cream cheese + creamtop 14% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together1,087 recipes
Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).
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Cream cheese + breadtop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together166 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
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Cream + breadtop 24% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together5,789 recipes
Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
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