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Peanut Sandwiches

A sandwich made with peanut butter, melted butter, mayonnaise, and thin bread slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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 ↓

Peanut Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Grind the peanuts in a food chopper to make peanut butter.

  2. Soften the peanut butter with melted butter and mayonnaise or boiled dressing.

  3. Spread the mixture on thin slices of 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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Peanut + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together97 recipes

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

  3. Peanut + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,754 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Peanuts
Ground into peanut butter, they supply the main fat, protein and nutty flavor of the filling.
Melted butter
Adds richness and softens the peanut butter so it spreads easily.
Mayonnaise or boiled dressing
Adds moisture and tang, keeping the filling soft and spreadable.
Thin slices of bread
Forms the base that holds the spread and gives the sandwich its structure.

Swap the peanut

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

  1. Lima beansfits better
  2. Pecansfits better
  3. Peasfits better
  4. Peanutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, 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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