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Prune Sandwiches

A sandwich made with stewed prunes, sugar, whipped cream, buttered bread, and ground almonds.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Prune Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Stew prunes until thick and mix with sugar and vanilla essence.

  2. Fold in the whipped cream until well combined.

Assemble the sandwich

  1. Spread butter on slices of white bread.

  2. Spread the prune mixture on the buttered bread.

  3. Sprinkle ground almonds over the prune mixture.

  4. Top with another slice of buttered bread to form a sandwich.

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

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

  2. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Cream + almondtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

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

What each ingredient does

Prunes
Provide the thick, sweet, moist body of the filling.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the tartness of the prunes.
Cream
Adds richness and a light, soft texture to the filling.
Ground almonds
Add a nutty flavor and a slightly grainy texture to the filling.
White bread
Forms the soft outer layers that hold the filling together.

The step that matters

Fold in the whipped cream until well combined. Whipped cream is a foam of trapped air. Folding gently keeps those bubbles intact so the filling stays light; vigorous stirring collapses the foam and leaves the mixture dense and loose.

“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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