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Sweet Nut Sandwiches

A sandwich made with a sweet nut and raisin 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: Walnut and coconut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 606 recipes. Both carry 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine, which smells cocoa, roasted. The science ↓

Sweet Nut Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Chop the raisins and mix them with the walnuts, chocolate, and coconut.

  2. Add enough sweet cream to achieve a spreadable consistency.

Assemble

  1. Spread the mixture between slices of bread to make sandwiches.

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. Walnut + coconuttop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together606 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  2. Chocolate + coconuttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,107 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  3. Chocolate + walnuttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,548 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  4. Chocolate + creamtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,466 recipes

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

  5. Raisin + walnuttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together647 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Seeded raisins
Add chewy texture and natural sweetness to the filling.
English walnuts
Add crunch and a nutty texture that contrasts with the soft filling.
Grated chocolate
Adds rich, slightly bitter flavor and aroma that balances the sweetness.
Grated coconut
Adds chewy texture and mild sweetness to the filling.
Sweet cream
Adds moisture and binds the dry ingredients into a spreadable filling.

The step that matters

Adding the sweet cream. Add the cream gradually, since too much makes the filling runny and it will soak into the bread. Stop once the mixture holds together and spreads easily.

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chocolate, walnut, coconut, cream):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chocolate, walnut, coconut, cream. 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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