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Good Sandwiches

A sandwich made with boiled lean meat, nuts, celery salt, cream salad dressing, and buttered thin bread slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Good Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Boil and finely chop the lean fresh meat.

  2. Chop the mixed nuts.

  3. Add celery salt to the meat and nuts.

  4. Mix with cream salad dressing.

Assemble

  1. Spread the mixture on buttered thin 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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  3. Mixed nuts + celerytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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

  5. Celery + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,110 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Lean fresh meat
Provides the main protein bulk of the filling.
Mixed nuts
Adds crunch and texture against the soft filling.
Cream salad dressing
Binds the chopped meat and nuts into a moist, spreadable mixture.
Butter
Coats the bread, adding richness and a barrier against sogginess.

The step that matters

Spread the mixture on buttered thin slices of bread. A wet filling can soak through thin bread and make it soggy. Buttering the bread first adds a fat layer that slows moisture absorption.

Swap the mixed nuts

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

  1. Walnutfits better
  2. Almondfits better
  3. Lima beansfits better
  4. Mixed nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, celery, cream, bread, butter. 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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