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Cheese Sandwiches

A sandwich made with a smooth mixture of cheese, butter, cream, mustard, and optional anchovy essence, spread between thinly sliced bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 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 ↓

Cheese Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Pound the cheese, butter, cream, mustard, and anchovy essence together until smooth.

Assemble and serve

  1. Spread the mixture on slices of thinly cut bread and butter.

  2. Top with more slices of bread and butter.

  3. Trim the edges neatly and arrange in a circle on a serving plate.

  4. Place crisp salad in the center for garnish.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Anchovy + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,260 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanol (green, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Cheese
Provides the main flavor and body of the filling, binding the spread together.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture, helping the cheese spread smoothly and softly within the bread.
Cream
Softens the cheese mixture, making it easier to pound into a smooth, spreadable paste.
Mustard
Adds sharp, acidic bite that balances the richness of the cheese and butter.

The step that matters

Pounding the filling until smooth. If the cheese, butter and cream are not fully blended, the spread will be lumpy and uneven. Softened butter and gentle pounding combine the fats and cheese into a uniform paste that spreads evenly without tearing the bread.

Swap the mustard

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, butter, cream, anchovy, 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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