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Cucumber Sandwiches

A sandwich made with sliced cucumber mixed with tartar sauce and served between bread slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Cucumber and bread work together. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 344 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Cucumber Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chop the cucumber.

  2. Mix the chopped cucumber with tartar sauce.

  3. Spread the mixture between slices 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. Cucumber + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together344 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Cucumber + saucetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,174 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Sauce + breadtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,934 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Cucumber
Provides crisp texture and fresh, moist filling for the sandwich.
Tartar sauce
Adds creamy moisture and tangy acidity that binds the filling together.
Bread
Forms the structure that holds the filling and gives the sandwich its body.

Swap the cucumber

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

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Cucumberthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sauce, 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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