Name: Cobned-bsef Sandwiches
Ingredients: cold meat; fat meat; French mustard or any made mustard; Boston brown bread

Why it works: Meat and mustard work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 855 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Cobned-bsef Sandwiches

Ingredients

cold meat
fat meat
French mustard or any made mustard
Boston brown bread

Directions

Chop the cold meat very fine, using one-fourth fat meat.
Mix in French mustard or any made mustard to taste.
Prepare the sandwiches using Boston brown 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.

Meat + mustardtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together855 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Meat + breadtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,924 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Mustard + breadtop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,484 recipes

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