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Peanut Sandwiches

A sandwich made with roasted peanuts, salt, cream, optional dressing, and raspberry jam.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Peanut and red raspberry share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4 recipes. Both carry maltol, which smells caramel, sweet. The science ↓

Peanut Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Chop the peanuts very finely.

  2. Pound the chopped peanuts in a mortar until smooth.

  3. Season the mixture with salt and thick cream.

  4. Add salad dressing if desired.

  5. Mix peanuts with red raspberry jam for a delicious filling.

Assemble

  1. Spread the filling 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.

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. Peanut + red raspberrytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together4 recipes

    Shared aroma: maltol (caramel, sweet).

  2. Peanut + creamtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together490 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  3. Cream + red raspberrytop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together26 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetoin (butter, cream).

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

What each ingredient does

Freshly roasted peanuts
Form the base of the filling, becoming a smooth paste when pounded.
Thick cream
Adds moisture and richness, loosening the peanut paste and softening its texture.
Red raspberry jam
Adds sweetness and fruity acidity that balances the nutty flavour of the peanuts.

The step that matters

Pound the peanuts until smooth. Peanuts must be chopped finely and pounded until smooth so the paste spreads evenly. Coarse pieces stay firm and tear the bread.

Swap the red raspberry

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

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Avocadofits better
  4. Red raspberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against peanut, 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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