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Nut and Cheese Sandwiches

A sandwich made with rye bread, cream cheese, and chopped English walnuts.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Walnut and rye share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 31 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Nut and Cheese Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the English walnuts into small pieces.

  2. Beat the cream cheese with a fork until soft.

Assemble

  1. Spread the cream cheese on thin slices of rye bread.

  2. Sprinkle the chopped walnuts on top of the cheese.

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. Walnut + ryetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together31 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Walnut + cream cheesetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together439 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Cream cheese + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together166 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Walnut + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together714 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

English walnuts
Add crunch and a nutty flavor that contrasts with the soft cheese.
Cream cheese
Provides a soft, creamy spread that moistens the bread and holds the walnuts.
Rye bread
Gives a sturdy base and a slightly tangy, earthy flavor to the sandwich.

Swap the walnut

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

  1. Beansfits about as well
  2. Walnutthe original
  3. Pecansfits about as well
  4. Peanutfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, rye, bread. 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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