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Raisin Sandwich

A sandwich made with raisins, allspice, sweet cream, and buttered 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 ↓

Raisin Sandwich

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Grind the raisins and season with allspice.

  2. Thin the mixture with sweet cream.

Assemble

  1. Butter the slices of bread.

  2. Fill the buttered bread with the raisin mixture.

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Raisin + allspicetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,475 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-terpineol (lilac, floral).

  4. Raisin + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,111 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Allspice + breadtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together679 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Raisins
Provide the main sweetness and body of the filling once ground.
Sweet cream
Adds fat and moisture, loosening the raisin mixture into a spreadable filling.
Butter
Adds richness and fat to the bread, aiding flavor and browning.

Swap the allspice

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

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Allspicethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against raisin, cream, 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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