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Kimono Sandwiches

A sandwich filled with a creamy mixture of pimento peppers, eggs, cream cheese, onion, red pepper, salt, sugar, butter, vinegar, sweet milk, and flour.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Kimono Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Chop the pimento peppers, hard-boiled eggs, cream cheese, onion, red pepper, and salt finely.

  2. In a saucepan, mix sugar, egg, butter, vinegar, sweet milk, and flour.

  3. Cook the mixture over low heat until thickened, stirring constantly.

Assemble

  1. Spread the filling between thin slices of buttered 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.

Explore the science

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. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Cream cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Cream cheese + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,393 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  5. Onion + vinegartop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,226 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

What each ingredient does

Cream cheese
Adds richness and a creamy body to the chopped filling.
Egg
Thickens the cooked sauce as its proteins set with gentle heat.
Flour
Thickens the sauce and gives it a stable, spreadable body.
Hard-boiled eggs
Add firm, mild bulk to the chopped filling.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that sharpens the flavor of the filling.

The step that matters

Cook the mixture over low heat, stirring constantly. The egg and flour thicken the sauce as they heat. Low heat with constant stirring prevents the egg from scrambling and lumps from forming, giving a smooth, spreadable filling.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, egg, cream cheese, sugar, butter, vinegar, milk):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, egg, cream cheese, sugar, butter, vinegar, milk. 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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