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Deviled Nut Sandwich

A sandwich made with sautéed almonds, Worcestershire sauce, pickles, chutney, cayenne, and cream cheese spread on Graham bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 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 ↓

Deviled Nut Sandwich

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the almonds

  1. Blanch and shred the almonds.

  2. Sauté them in butter until delicately browned, stirring constantly.

  3. Mix Worcestershire sauce, chopped pickles, salt, chutney, and cayenne with the almonds and cook for 2 minutes.

Make the cream cheese spread

  1. Work the cream cheese until smooth.

  2. Moisten with cream.

  3. Season with salt and paprika.

Assemble the sandwiches

  1. Cut Graham bread into ¼-inch slices.

  2. Spread with the cream cheese mixture.

  3. Sprinkle with the nut mixture and assemble in pairs, removing the crusts.

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

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

  3. Butter + cream cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Sauce + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,787 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Almond + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Almonds
Provide the main crunchy texture and nutty flavor of the filling.
Cream cheese
Gives a smooth, creamy base that binds the sandwich together.
Worcestershire sauce
Adds savory, tangy depth to the nut filling.
Chopped pickles
Contribute acidity and a sharp bite that cuts the richness.
Chutney
Adds sweetness and acidity to balance the savory filling.
Graham bread
Serves as the structure that holds the filling in layers.

The step that matters

Sauté the almonds until delicately browned. Browning develops nutty, toasted flavor through the Maillard reaction, but nuts can scorch quickly. Constant stirring keeps them evenly colored and prevents bitter, burnt notes.

Swap the almond

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

  1. Walnutfits about as well
  2. Beansfits about as well
  3. Almondthe original
  4. Pecansfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, pepper, butter, cream cheese, cream, 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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