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Salt Almond Sandwiches

A sandwich made with salted almonds, buttered bread, and optional mayonnaise.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter 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 ↓

Salt Almond Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the salted almonds finely.

  2. Spread butter on a slice of bread.

  3. Sprinkle the chopped almonds on the buttered slice.

  4. Optionally, add a little mayonnaise on the nuts before covering.

  5. Cover with another slice of bread.

Finish

  1. Cut into fancy shapes.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Almond + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Almond + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together858 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetylpyrazine (roast).

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

What each ingredient does

Salted almonds
Provide the crunchy texture and salty flavour that the filling is built around.
Butter
Adds fat and richness and helps the bread's surface and the almonds stick together.
Mayonnaise
Adds moisture and creaminess to bind the chopped almonds, if used.

Swap the almond

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, butter. 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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