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Nut Sandwiches

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and pecans work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 67 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Nut Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Spread mayonnaise dressing on a slice of bread.

  2. Place chopped pecans on top of the mayonnaise.

  3. Top with another slice of 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. Bread + pecanstop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together67 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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