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Roquefort Cheese Sandwich

A sandwich made with Roquefort cheese, butter, olive oil, pepper, salt, and red pepper spread on buttered bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Roquefort Cheese Sandwich

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, combine 3 parts Roquefort cheese and 1 part butter.

  2. Add a little olive oil, pepper, salt, and a dash of red pepper, then mix until it forms a paste.

Assemble

  1. Spread the mixture on thin slices of buttered 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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Olive + breadtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Olive + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

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

  4. Roquefort cheese + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  5. Roquefort cheese + olivetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Roquefort cheese
Provides the main flavour and a creamy, spreadable body once mixed.
Butter
Adds fat that softens the cheese and helps it bind into a smooth paste.
Olive oil
Adds fat that loosens the paste so it spreads more easily.

“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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