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Nut Sandwiches

A sandwich made with walnuts or peanuts mixed with mayonnaise, spread on bread and buttered.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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 ↓

Nut Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Mix the chopped walnuts or peanuts with the mayonnaise dressing.

Assemble

  1. Spread the mixture on one side of each slice of bread.

  2. Butter the other side of each slice.

  3. Assemble the sandwiches and cut them into halves or quarters.

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. Walnut + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,832 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Walnut + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together714 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Walnuts or peanuts
Provide crunch and a rich, nutty flavour that contrasts with the soft bread.
Mayonnaise dressing
Binds the chopped nuts together and adds moisture and richness to the filling.
Bread
Forms the structure that holds the filling and gives the sandwich its body.
Butter
Adds fat and flavour to the bread and helps keep it from soaking up moisture.

Swap the walnut

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

  1. Lima beansfits better
  2. Pecansfits better
  3. Peasfits better
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against 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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