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Cheese Sandwiches

A sandwich made with grated cheese, egg yolks, butter, and mayonnaise, spread on buttered bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 ↓

Cheese Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. In a bowl, mash the egg yolks well.

  2. Mix the mashed yolks with the grated cheese, butter, and mayonnaise.

Assemble the sandwiches

  1. Spread butter on the slices of bread.

  2. Spread the cheese mixture on the buttered bread.

  3. Roll or fold the bread to form sandwiches.

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.

Explore the science

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  3. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  4. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Mild fresh cheese
Provides the main body and mild, creamy flavour of the filling.
Hard boiled egg yolks
Mashed, they add richness and a soft, spreadable texture to the filling.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, and coats the bread to keep it from soaking up the filling.
Mayonnaise
Adds moisture and fat, helping bind the mashed yolks and cheese into a smooth spread.

The step that matters

Mashing the egg yolks well. Yolks left in lumps create uneven pockets in the filling and make it hard to spread evenly. Fully mashed yolks blend with the cheese, butter, and mayonnaise into a smooth, cohesive mixture that holds together inside the bread.

“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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