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Chicken and Almond Sandwich

A sandwich made with chopped chicken, almonds, salt, cream, and pepper, spread between whole-wheat bread slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and wheat match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 264 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Chicken and Almond Sandwich

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. In a bowl, combine the chopped chicken, almonds, salt, cream, and pepper. Mix until you have a smooth paste.

  2. Spread the mixture between slices of whole-wheat bread.

Finish and serve

  1. Cut into desired shapes.

  2. Serve.

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. Almond + wheattop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together264 recipes

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

  2. Wheat + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together209 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Chicken + wheattop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together296 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  4. Chicken + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,258 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

  5. Pepper + wheattop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together984 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

Cooked chicken
Provides the main protein and bulk of the filling.
Almonds
Add crunch and a nutty flavor to the paste.
Sweet thick cream
Adds moisture and richness so the filling binds into a spreadable paste.

The step that matters

Mixing to a smooth paste. Chopped chicken and almonds stay in coarse pieces unless mixed long enough with the cream, which makes the filling hard to spread evenly and can leave dry pockets.

Swap the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (chicken, cream, pepper, wheat, bread):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Peanutfits better
  3. Walnutfits better
  4. Almondthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against chicken, cream, pepper, wheat, 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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