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Dill Sandwiches

A sandwich made with rye bread, butter, cold chicken or turkey, and dill pickles.

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 ↓

Dill Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Slice the rye bread thinly.

  2. Spread butter on one slice of bread.

Assemble and serve

  1. On the buttered slice, layer thin chips of cold chicken or turkey.

  2. Add a layer of very thinly sliced dill pickles.

  3. Top with another slice of buttered bread and press together.

  4. Serve for picnics and outings.

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 + dilltop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Rye + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together59 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Bread + chickentop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,258 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

  5. Butter + chickentop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,902 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Rye bread
Provides the sturdy base and structure that holds the fillings together.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, and a moisture barrier that keeps bread from soaking up filling juices.
Cold chicken or turkey
Supplies the protein and savory body of the sandwich.
Dill pickles
Adds acidity and crisp, sharp flavor that cuts through the richness of the butter and meat.

Swap the dill

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

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Capersfits better
  4. Dillthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rye, bread, butter, chicken. 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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