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Cheese Sandwiches

A sandwich made with rich cheese, hard‑boiled egg yolks, mayonnaise, buttered bread, and optional lettuce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Cheese Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Mash the cheese with a silver fork in a bowl.

  2. Mix in the yolks of the hard boiled eggs and enough mayonnaise dressing to season well.

Assemble the sandwiches

  1. Cut the bread into thin slices and butter them.

  2. Spread the cheese mixture between the slices of bread.

  3. Optionally, add a leaf of lettuce with the cheese between the 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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  3. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

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

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

  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

Rich cheese
Provides the main flavor and creamy body of the filling.
Hard boiled egg yolks
Add richness and a soft, crumbly texture to the filling.
Mayonnaise dressing
Adds moisture and fat, binding the filling and seasoning it.
Bread
Provides the structure that holds the filling together.
Butter
Adds fat and flavor to the bread and helps keep it from soaking up moisture.

The step that matters

Mashing the cheese and yolks with dressing. Mixing the filling until smooth and evenly seasoned keeps every bite consistent. Adding dressing gradually lets you control moisture so the filling spreads well without becoming runny.

Swap the lettuce

The recipe marks lettuce as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cheese, egg, bread, butter):

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, egg, bread, butter. 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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