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Cheese Sandwiches

A simple sandwich made with brown bread and thick slices of cheese, toasted until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,130 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cheese Sandwiches

Oven, in the book's wordsA brisk oven

Ingredients

Directions

Assemble

  1. Cut cheese into slices about ½ inch thick.

  2. Place cheese slices between slices of brown bread to make sandwiches.

Toast and serve

  1. Place sandwiches on a plate in the oven.

  2. Toast until the bread is golden brown.

  3. Serve immediately on a napkin while hot.

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. Bread + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Brown bread
Provides the structure that holds the cheese, and browns and crisps when toasted.
Cheese
Melts and adds richness, fat and savory flavor between the slices of bread.

The step that matters

Toast until the bread is golden brown. Browning comes from the Maillard reaction between sugars and proteins in the bread. Stop at golden, because over-toasting turns the crust bitter and dry.

“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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