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Curried Cheese Sandwiches

A sandwich made by mixing cheese, butter, and curry paste, then spreading on bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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 ↓

Curried Cheese Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Cut the cheese into small pieces.

  2. Pound the cheese in a mortar with the butter and curry paste until well combined.

Assemble and store

  1. Spread the mixture onto thin slices of bread.

  2. Assemble the slices into neatly shaped sandwiches.

  3. Store any leftover mixture in a jar, covered with clarified butter.

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. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cheese
Provides the main body and rich flavour of the filling.
Butter
Adds fat and moisture, helping the cheese blend into a smooth, spreadable paste.
Curry paste
Supplies the spice and aroma that flavour the filling.

The step that matters

Pounding the cheese with butter and curry paste until well combined. Cheese left in lumps or unevenly mixed gives a crumbly, patchy spread. Working the cheese with softened fat breaks it into a smooth paste that holds together and spreads evenly on the bread.

“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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