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Peanut Sandwiches

A sandwich made with roasted peanuts and cream cheese spread between bread slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 ↓

Peanut Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Shell and finely grate the roasted peanuts.

  2. In a bowl, mix the grated peanuts with the cream cheese until smooth.

Assemble and cut

  1. Spread the mixture on thin slices of bread, then place another slice on top.

  2. Trim the edges and cut into small pieces.

Alternative method

  1. Alternatively, butter thin slices of brown bread, cover with finely chopped peanuts, and sprinkle with coarse sea salt.

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. Peanut + cream cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together163 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Peanut + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together97 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  5. Peanut + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,754 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

What each ingredient does

Roasted peanuts
Provide the main flavour and a nutty texture when finely grated into the filling.
Cream cheese
Binds the grated peanuts into a smooth, spreadable filling with a creamy texture.
Bread
Holds the filling in place as the sandwich structure.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the bread and helps the topping stick in the alternative method.

Swap the peanut

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

  1. Pecansfits better
  2. Walnutfits about as well
  3. Peasfits about as well
  4. Peanutthe original

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