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Nut Sandwiches

A sandwich made with a walnut and mayonnaise mixture spread between buttered brown bread slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Walnut and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,039 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Nut Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Finely chop the English walnuts and moisten them with mayonnaise dressing.

  2. Season with a pinch of Krona pepper and mix well.

Assemble

  1. Spread the mixture onto slices of buttered brown bread.

  2. Top with another slice of bread, press together, and cut into desired 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. Walnut + peppertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,039 recipes

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

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

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

  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 walnuts
Provide the crunchy texture and nutty flavor that give the filling its body.
Mayonnaise dressing
Moistens the chopped walnuts so the filling holds together and spreads easily.
Buttered brown bread
Forms the sandwich structure and carries the filling, with butter adding richness.

Swap the walnut

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

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Lima beansfits better
  3. Peasfits better
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, 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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