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Cheese Filling for Sandwiches

A creamy cheese filling for sandwiches made with cheese, butter, milk, egg, salt, mustard, and vinegar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Cheese Filling for Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Melt the cheese, butter, and milk together slowly.

  2. In a separate bowl, mix the egg, salt, and mustard.

  3. Combine the egg mixture with the melted ingredients.

  4. Season with vinegar and mix well.

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 + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Mustard + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  4. Cheese + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

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

  5. Cheese + mustardtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,805 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Cheese
Melts into the base, providing the main body and rich flavor of the filling.
Egg
Thickens the melted mixture as it binds with the heat, giving a spreadable texture.
Butter
Adds fat that keeps the melted cheese smooth and glossy rather than grainy.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that brightens the rich cheese and balances its flavor.

The step that matters

Combine the egg mixture with the melted ingredients. Egg proteins set when heated, so adding the egg mixture to very hot cheese can scramble it. Keep the heat low and stir steadily so the filling thickens smoothly.

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cheese, butter, milk, egg, vinegar):

  1. Potatofits about as well
  2. Capsicumfits about as well
  3. Mustardthe original
  4. Asparagusfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, butter, milk, egg, vinegar. 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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