Name: Mayonnaise Sandwiches
Ingredients: 1 cup cold minced chicken; 12 champignons, chopped fine; ¼ teaspoon salt; ¼ teaspoon paprika; 1 cup good mayonnaise dressing; bread, sliced thin

Why it works: Chicken and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,258 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity. The science ↓

Mayonnaise Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Mix the minced chicken and chopped mushrooms in a bowl.
Season with salt and paprika, then beat in the mayonnaise dressing.
Spread the mixture between slices of thin 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.

Chicken + breadtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,258 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

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What each ingredient does

Minced chicken: Provides the main protein and bulk of the filling.
Mushrooms (in the method): Add moisture and savory, earthy flavor to the filling.
Mayonnaise dressing: Adds fat and creaminess that binds the filling together and keeps it moist.

“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.