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Nut Sandwiches

A sandwich made with buttered bread and chopped nuts.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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

  1. Butter the bread slices.

  2. Cut the bread into very thin slices.

  3. Sprinkle chopped nuts on one slice.

  4. Fold another slice on top to make a sandwich.

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. Rye + nutstop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together32 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl decanoate (grape, waxy).

  3. Bread + ryetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together59 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Bread + nutstop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together174 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Butter + nutstop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,291 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Adds fat and richness, and helps the bread stay moist and the filling stick.
Chopped nuts
Add crunch and a toasty, rich flavour to the sandwich filling.
Graham bread
Forms the sandwich slices, adding a slightly sweet, wholesome flavour and soft texture.
Rye bread
Forms the sandwich slices, adding a tangy, earthy flavour and dense texture.
Boston brown bread
Forms the sandwich slices, adding a moist, lightly sweet flavour and soft crumb.

Swap the nuts

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

  1. Flaxseedfits better
  2. Almondfits better
  3. Beansfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, rye, 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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