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Hyde Park Sandwiches

A sandwich made with pimento, peanut butter, butter, and bread.

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

Hyde Park Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the spread

  1. Cut the bread into ¼-inch slices.

  2. Spread each slice with peanut butter.

  3. Cut the spread slices into rounds.

Make the pimento filling

  1. Drain the canned pimentos between towels.

  2. Force the drained pimentos through a strainer.

  3. Work the butter until creamy.

  4. Mix the creamy butter with the prepared pimentos.

  5. Season the mixture with salt.

Assemble

  1. Use this filling to assemble the 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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

  3. 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

Peanut butter
Adds fat and richness to the bread layer of the sandwich.
Pimentos
Add mild sweetness and moisture, forming the main body of the filling.
Butter
Adds fat and creaminess, helping the pimento mixture become smooth and spreadable.
Bread
Provides the structure that holds the spread and filling.

The step that matters

Drain the canned pimentos between towels. Canned pimentos hold a lot of liquid. If they are not dried well, the extra water thins the butter mixture and soaks into the bread, making the sandwiches soggy.

Swap the peanut

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

  1. Lima beansfits better
  2. Pecansfits better
  3. Peasfits better
  4. Peanutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, 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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