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Nutmeato and Egg Sandwiches

A sandwich made with grated nutmeato and hard-boiled eggs, seasoned with salt and celery salt, served on brown bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,466 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Nutmeato and Egg Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Sift the hard-boiled eggs through a fine wire sieve.

  2. Add the grated nutmeato and rub smooth with the back of a spoon.

  3. Season with salt and celery salt to taste.

  4. If the mixture is too dry, moisten with a small quantity of nut milk.

Assemble the sandwiches

  1. Cut the brown bread into thin slices.

  2. Use a cookie cutter to cut the slices into round pieces, excluding the crust.

  3. Spread the mixture on half of the round pieces and top with the remaining pieces to complete the sandwiches.

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. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  5. Celery + milktop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,491 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Hard-boiled eggs
Provide the main body and creamy texture of the filling once sieved and smoothed.
Nutmeato
Supplies the bulk of the filling, giving it a grated, spreadable texture.
Nut milk
Adds moisture to loosen the filling when the mixture turns too dry.

The step that matters

Sieving the hard-boiled eggs. Pushing the eggs through a fine sieve breaks up the yolk and white into fine particles, so the filling spreads smoothly instead of crumbling. Rubbing with the back of a spoon finishes the texture.

Swap the celery

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

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Cinnamonfits better
  3. Parsleyfits better
  4. Celerythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, milk, bread. 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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