Name: Stuffed Olive Sandwiches
Ingredients: 1 cup deviled olives, chopped; ¼ cup mayonnaise; 8 slices brown or wheat bread

Why it works: Olive and wheat match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,100 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Stuffed Olive Sandwiches

Ingredients

1 cup deviled olives, chopped
¼ cup mayonnaise
8 slices brown or wheat bread

Directions

Prepare

Chop the olives finely in a wooden bowl.
Mix the chopped olives with mayonnaise.

Assemble and serve

Spread the mixture between thin slices of bread.
Cut the sandwiches into triangles or circles.

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.

Olive + wheattop 6% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together1,100 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Deviled olives: Provide the main savoury flavour and salty, spiced character of the filling.
Mayonnaise: Binds the chopped olives into a spreadable filling and adds moisture and richness.
Brown or wheat bread: Provides the structure that holds the filling and a slightly nutty, hearty flavour.

“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.