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Workman's Cheese Sandwiches

A sandwich made with a cottage cheese, butter, and cream mixture spread between brown and white bread slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Workman's Cheese Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Mix cottage cheese, melted butter, thick cream, and salt until smooth and light.

Assemble the sandwiches

  1. Cut brown bread into slices ½ inch thick.

  2. Spread the cheese mixture on half of the brown bread slices.

  3. Cover with very thin slices of white bread.

  4. Top with the remaining brown bread slices and cheese mixture.

  5. Do not trim.

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

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

  2. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Cottage cheese + buttertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together376 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  4. Cottage cheese + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together72 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  5. Cottage cheese + creamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together146 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Cottage cheese
Forms the creamy, spreadable body of the filling.
Melted butter
Adds fat for richness and a smoother, silkier texture.
Thick cream
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the filling soft and smooth.
Brown bread
Provides the sturdy, flavourful base and top layers for the filling.
White bread
Adds a thin, mild layer that contrasts with the brown bread.

The step that matters

Mix the filling until smooth and light. Cottage cheese has a lumpy curd, so it must be beaten with the butter and cream until smooth; lumps left in the filling make the sandwich uneven and hard to spread.

“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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