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Dressing Fob Sandwiches

A creamy butter-based dressing with mustard, oil, pepper, salt, egg yolk, and ham.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 15,430 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Dressing Fob Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Rub the butter into a cream.

  2. Add the mustard, salad oil, red pepper, salt, and egg yolk; mix thoroughly.

  3. Chill the mixture.

  4. Before using, mix in the finely chopped ham.

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. Mustard + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

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

  2. Mustard + hamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together747 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Butter + hamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,475 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  4. Egg + hamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,526 recipes

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

  5. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Creamed base that gives the dressing its rich body and mouthfeel.
Egg yolk
Emulsifier that helps hold the butter, oil, and mustard together as one smooth dressing.
Salad oil
Adds fluidity and smoothness, keeping the dressing spreadable.
Mixed mustard
Adds sharp, savory flavor that cuts through the richness of the butter.

The step that matters

Rub the butter into a cream. Butter must be soft and worked until smooth before the other ingredients go in. If it is cold or lumpy, it will not blend evenly, and the egg yolk and oil may separate instead of forming a uniform dressing.

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, pepper, egg, ham):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, pepper, egg, ham. 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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