Why it works: Peanut and bread work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 97 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓
Peanut Sandwiches
Ingredients
Directions
Pound the peanuts to a paste in a mortar.
Season the paste with coarse sea salt.
Spread the peanut paste between thin slices of bread.
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.
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Peanut + breadtop 15% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together97 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).
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What each ingredient does
- Peanuts
- Crushed into a paste, they supply the bulk, richness and flavour of the filling.
“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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