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Watercress Sandwiches

A sandwich made with chopped watercress mixed with salad dressing spread on thin bread slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Watercress and bread work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 307 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Watercress Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the stems from the watercress and chop the leaves finely.

  2. Add 4 to 6 tablespoons of salad dressing to the chopped leaves and mix well.

  3. Spread the mixture over thin slices of 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.

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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. Watercress + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together307 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

What each ingredient does

Watercress
Provides fresh, peppery flavour and a green, moist filling once chopped.
Salad dressing
Adds moisture and richness, binding the chopped leaves into a spreadable 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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