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Chicken and Nut Sandwich

A sandwich made with chopped cooked chicken, nuts, and sweet cream spread on bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,258 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity. The science ↓

Chicken and Nut Sandwich

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the cooked chicken finely.

  2. Chop the blanched almonds or walnuts finely.

Make the filling

  1. In a bowl, combine the chicken and nuts.

  2. Add sweet cream gradually until the mixture is a spreadable paste.

Assemble

  1. Spread the mixture on slices of graham or white bread.

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. Chicken + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,258 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

  2. Almond + creamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  3. Almond + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together858 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetylpyrazine (roast).

  4. Chicken + almondtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together838 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Chicken + creamtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,241 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked chicken
Provides the main protein and bulk of the filling.
Blanched almonds or english walnuts
Add crunch and nutty flavour to the soft filling.
Sweet cream
Adds moisture and fat so the mixture binds into a spreadable paste.

The step that matters

Adding the sweet cream gradually. Cream added all at once can make the mixture too wet and loose. Adding it slowly lets you stop at a spreadable paste that holds together on the bread.

Swap the almond

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

  1. Peanutfits better
  2. Lima beansfits better
  3. Beansfits better
  4. Almondthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, cream, 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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