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Ciieese-and-enqlish-walnut Sandwiches

A sandwich made with butter, cheese, walnuts, salt, paprika, and bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 ↓

Ciieese-and-enqlish-walnut Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Cream the butter in a bowl.

  2. Add salt, paprika, and grated cheese gradually, mixing well.

  3. Fold in the thinly sliced walnuts.

Assemble and serve

  1. Spread the mixture on slices of bread.

  2. Press the slices together in pairs.

  3. Serve with a simple vegetable.

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.

Explore the science

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. Butter + breadtop 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. Walnut + meattop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,035 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Cheese + walnuttop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together410 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Softened fat that creams into a smooth base and carries the other filling ingredients.
Grated cheese
Supplies the main savoury flavour and body of the filling.
English walnut meats
Add crunch and a nutty flavour that contrasts with the soft filling.
Bread
Provides the structure that holds the filling and is pressed into sandwiches.

The step that matters

Add the cheese gradually while mixing. Adding cheese gradually to creamed butter helps it blend evenly into a spreadable mixture instead of clumping into lumps.

Swap the walnut

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

  1. Pecansfits about as well
  2. Lima beansfits about as well
  3. Walnutthe original
  4. Beansfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, butter, meat, 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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