Currant Sandwiches

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. Currant + buttertop 17% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together7,856 recipes

   Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

3. Currant + breadtop 17% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together2,398 recipes

   Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

4. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together98,233 recipes

   Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

5. Currant + sugartop 26% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together12,256 recipes

Currant and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 12,256 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Currants

Provide the sweet-tart fruit filling and bulk of the sandwich.

Butter

Adds richness and moisture, and helps the bread carry the filling.

Powdered sugar

Adds sweetness that dissolves quickly over the fruit.

Swap the currant

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

1. Vanillafits better
2. Figfits better
3. Applefits better
4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, butter, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.