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Chicken and Almond Sandwiches

A sandwich made with cooked chicken, almond paste, sweet cream, cayenne or paprika, celery salt, and buttered brown bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 485 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Chicken and Almond Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the blanched almonds to make almond paste and chill until stiff.

  2. Combine the chicken meat with the almond paste.

Make the filling

  1. Moisten the mixture with sweet cream to achieve the right consistency.

  2. Season with cayenne or paprika and celery salt to taste.

Assemble

  1. Spread the mixture between thin slices of buttered brown bread.

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. Almond + celerytop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together485 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Chicken + meattop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,449 recipes

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

  3. Chicken + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,258 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

  4. Meat + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Chicken + celerytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,375 recipes

    Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked chicken meat
Forms the main body of the filling.
Almond paste
Adds nutty richness and body to the chicken filling.
Sweet cream
Moistens the filling and keeps it soft and spreadable.

The step that matters

Moisten with sweet cream. Too little cream leaves the filling dry and crumbly, while too much makes it loose and soggy, so add it gradually until the mixture holds together and spreads easily.

Swap the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, meat, cream, celery, bread):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Peanutfits better
  3. Walnutfits better
  4. Almondthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, meat, cream, celery, 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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