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Roquefort Cheese Sandwich

A sandwich made with a butter and Roquefort cheese spread, garlic, cream, paprika, and salt between thin bread slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Roquefort Cheese Sandwich

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Cream the butter and Roquefort cheese together.

  2. Add the chopped garlic, salt, cream, and paprika; mix well.

Assemble

  1. Spread the mixture between very thin slices of bread.

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. Clove + garlictop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,368 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Butter + roquefort cheesetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together35 recipes

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

  5. Garlic + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together767 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Adds fat and richness, and helps the cheese blend into a smooth, spreadable mixture.
Roquefort cheese
Provides the main savoury, tangy flavour and most of the filling's body.
Cream
Adds moisture that loosens the filling so it spreads easily.
Garlic
Adds sharp aroma and pungency to the filling.

Swap the clove

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

  1. Parsleyfits better
  2. Celeryfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, garlic, roquefort 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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