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Alexandra Sandwiches

A sandwich made with minced cold roast game, sliced tongue, ham, truffles, and a seasoned meat mixture, served on buttered French rolls.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Alexandra Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Mince the cold roast game and combine it with the finely sliced tongue, ham, and truffles.

  2. Mix in a little hot salmi or rich brown sauce, along with meat glaze and gelatine, and season with pepper and coarse sea salt.

  3. Place the mixture in a square mold and chill it in the ice until firm.

Assemble and serve

  1. Slice small French rolls into 1/8-inch thick slices and butter them.

  2. Spread a thin layer of the meat mixture between two slices of buttered bread, press, and trim the edges.

  3. Serve with lemon or another suitable pickle.

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. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Truffle + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,209 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Ham + truffletop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together516 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Ham + meattop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,095 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Truffle + meattop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together527 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Cold roast game
Provides the main meaty body of the filling.
Gelatine
Sets the minced mixture so it holds its shape when chilled and sliced.
Meat glaze
Adds concentrated meaty flavour and helps bind the filling.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the bread and keeps it from soaking up the filling.
Truffles
Contributes a strong, earthy aroma to the filling.

The step that matters

Chilling the filling until firm. Gelatine only sets the mixture when it is cold enough. If the filling is not fully chilled, it stays soft and will squeeze out when pressed between the bread, so it needs to be firm before slicing.

“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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