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Spanish Sandwiches

A sandwich with buttered graham bread, mustard, cottage cheese, olives or pickles, and mayonnaise.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,950 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Spanish Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Spread buttered graham bread with mixed mustard.

  2. Add a layer of cottage cheese.

  3. Top with a layer of chopped olives or pickles mixed with mayonnaise.

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. Mustard + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Bread + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Cottage cheese + olivetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together205 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  4. Bread + cottage cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together72 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  5. Bread + mustardtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,484 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Cottage cheese
Provides a soft, moist, creamy layer that fills the sandwich.
Mayonnaise
Adds fat and moisture, binding the chopped olives or pickles into a spreadable topping.
Mixed mustard
Adds sharp, tangy flavor that cuts through the richness of the cheese and mayonnaise.

Swap the mustard

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

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, cottage cheese, olive. 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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