Name: Egg-and-anchovy Sandwiches
Ingredients: 2 anchovies; egg-paste; rolls or biscuits; butter (for spreading on crackers)

Why it works: Biscuit and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,009 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Egg-and-anchovy Sandwiches

Ingredients

2 anchovies
egg-paste
rolls or biscuits
butter (for spreading on crackers)

Directions

Finely mix the anchovies and add them to the egg paste.
Spread the mixture on rolls or biscuits.
Use anchovy paste as a filling for sandwiches or spread it thinly on buttered crackers.

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.

Biscuit + buttertop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,009 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together118,967 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Egg + biscuittop 27% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,643 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).