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Club Sandwiches

A sandwich made with toasted bread, mayonnaise, lettuce, cold chicken, and bacon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Chicken and meat are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,449 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Club Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Spread mayonnaise dressing on two pieces of toasted bread.

  2. Cover with lettuce and add thin slices of cold chicken.

  3. Layer slices of broiled breakfast bacon on top of the chicken.

  4. Add more lettuce and top with the remaining pieces of toasted bread spread with mayonnaise.

  5. Trim the edges neatly, arrange on a plate, and garnish with heart leaves of lettuce dipped in mayonnaise.

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. Chicken + meattop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Bread + chickentop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,258 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

  3. Bread + meattop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 recipes

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

  4. Bread + lettucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together602 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Lettuce + chickentop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,421 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Toasted bread
Provides the crisp structure that holds the layers together.
Mayonnaise dressing
Adds moisture and richness and helps bind the layers.
Lettuce
Adds cool, crisp texture and moisture between the layers.
Cold chicken
Supplies the main protein and a tender, moist bite.
Broiled bacon
Adds savory, salty flavor and a crisp, smoky bite.

Swap the lettuce

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

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, chicken, meat. 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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