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Cheshibe Meat Sandwiches

A sandwich made with butter, grated Cheshire cheese, mustard, cold meat, and bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 ↓

Cheshibe Meat Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, combine fresh butter, grated Cheshire cheese, and mustard to form a smooth paste.

  2. Spread the paste on thinly cut slices of sandwich bread.

  3. Layer thin slices of cold meat on top of the paste.

  4. Cover with another slice of bread spread with butter.

  5. Press down gently, cut into desired shapes, and serve.

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. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  3. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  4. Cheese + mustardtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,805 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Mustard + meattop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together855 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Fresh butter
Softens the cheese paste and keeps the sandwich moist and spreadable.
Cheshire cheese
Adds savoury flavour and a rich, binding texture to the paste.
Mustard
Adds sharpness that balances the richness of the butter and cheese.
Sandwich bread
Provides the soft, thin structure that holds the paste and filling.

Swap the mustard

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

  1. Potatofits about as well
  2. Tomatofits about as well
  3. Mustardthe original
  4. Asparagusfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, cheese, bread, meat. 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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