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Walnut Sandwiches

A sandwich made with walnut paste spread on thinly sliced bread, served with olives.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Walnut and meat are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,035 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Walnut Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Slice the bread very thin and trim off the crusts.

  2. Chop the walnut meats very fine.

Assemble

  1. Mix the chopped walnuts with enough mayonnaise dressing to make a paste.

  2. Spread the walnut mixture on the bread slices.

  3. Serve with olives.

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. Walnut + meattop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,035 recipes

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

  2. Meat + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 recipes

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

  3. Walnut + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together714 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

English walnut meats
Provide the main filling, adding crunch and a nutty flavor.
Mayonnaise dressing
Binds the chopped walnuts into a spreadable paste and adds moisture and richness.

Swap the walnut

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

  1. Lima beansfits better
  2. Pecansfits better
  3. Peasfits about as well
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, 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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