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Cheese and Nut Sandwiches

A sandwich made with nuts, cream cheese, mayonnaise, and optional lettuce on bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Nuts and lettuce work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 174 recipes. Both carry 2-nonanone, which smells fruity, floral. The science ↓

Cheese and Nut Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chop the hickory nuts or English walnuts and mix with the cream cheese and mayonnaise dressing.

  2. Cut thin slices of bread and spread the mixture on them without butter.

  3. If desired, place a lettuce leaf on the bread before adding the mixture.

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. Nuts + lettucetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together174 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  2. Bread + lettucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together602 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Cream cheese + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together166 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Nuts + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together174 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Nuts + cream cheesetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together56 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

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

What each ingredient does

Cream cheese
Provides creamy body and moisture that binds the nut filling and spreads easily.
Hickory nuts or english walnuts
Add crunch and nutty flavour to the soft cheese filling.
Mayonnaise dressing
Adds fat and moisture, making the filling smooth and spreadable.

Swap the lettuce

The recipe marks lettuce as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (nuts, cream cheese, bread):

  1. Lettucethe original
  2. Cucumberfits about as well
  3. Spinachfits about as well
  4. Capsicumfits about as well

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