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Chasseur Sandwiches

A sandwich made with ground ham and pheasant, butter, Lazenby's sauce, and tomato slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Chasseur Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Pound the cooked ham and cold pheasant or partridge in a mortar until smooth.

  2. Add the butter and Lazenby's Sauce, then season with Krona pepper.

  3. Rub the mixture through a fine sieve.

Assemble and cut

  1. Spread the mixture between slices of buttered bread and add a layer of thin tomato slices.

  2. Trim the sandwiches and cut them into neat 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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Pepper + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,923 recipes

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

  3. Ham + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Bread + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,013 recipes

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

  5. Butter + saucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together15,338 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Butter and sauce barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 15,338 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Enriches the smooth filling and adds richness that carries the meats' flavour.
Cooked ham
Provides savoury, salty meat flavour as the base of the filling.
Pheasant or partridge
Supplies the main game flavour and the body of the filling.

The step that matters

Rub the mixture through a fine sieve. Pounding alone leaves fibres and lumps. Pressing the paste through a fine sieve removes them, giving the smooth, even texture the filling needs for spreading.

Swap the tomato

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Mustardfits about as well
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ham, pheasant, butter, sauce, 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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