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Egg and Olive Sandwiches

A sandwich made with chopped hard‑cooked eggs, olives, boiled dressing, paprika, salt, pepper, and white bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,091 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Egg and Olive Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Chop the hard‑cooked eggs and olives very finely.

  2. In a bowl, combine the chopped eggs, olives, boiled dressing, paprika, salt, and pepper. Mix thoroughly.

Assemble

  1. Spread the mixture on thinly sliced 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.

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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. Olive + breadtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Olive + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

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

  3. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  4. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Egg + olivetop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,340 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Hard-cooked eggs
Provide the main body and soft, creamy texture of the filling.
Olives
Add salty, briny flavour that contrasts with the rich eggs.
Boiled dressing
Binds the chopped eggs and olives together and adds moisture and tang.

The step that matters

Chop the eggs and olives very finely. Fine, even pieces spread smoothly on bread and blend evenly with the dressing. Large chunks stay separate, making the filling uneven and harder to bite through neatly.

“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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