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Nutmeato Sandwiches

A sandwich made with nut butter, nutmeato slices, lettuce, and lemon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Celery and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,467 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Nutmeato Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Assemble

  1. Spread nut butter diluted with water on slices of bread or buns.

  2. Sprinkle with coarse sea salt.

  3. Place a thin slice of nutmeato on top and season with celery salt.

  4. Add tender pieces of lettuce, allowing the edges to extend beyond the bread.

  5. Butter another slice of bread and place it on top.

Finish and serve

  1. Cut the lemon into quarters.

  2. Squeeze lemon juice onto the nutmeato just before eating, or add it before serving.

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. Celery + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Celery + lettucetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,033 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Lettuce + lemontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,559 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Bread + lettucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together602 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Nut butter
Provides fat and a rich, creamy layer that carries the other flavours.
Nutmeato
Supplies the meaty, savoury filling that gives the sandwich its main body.
Lettuce
Adds crisp, cool texture and freshness between the bread layers.
Butter
Adds fat and flavour to the bread, along with a little richness.
Lemon
Adds acidity that brightens the savoury filling.

Swap the lettuce

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

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Carrotfits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, butter, celery, lemon. 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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