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Cheese-and-bab-le-duc-currant Sandwiches

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Wheat and bread match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 209 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Cheese-and-bab-le-duc-currant Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Spread cream cheese on slices of wheat bread.

  2. Add two or three currants and a little syrup on each slice.

  3. Press two slices together.

  4. For variation, use sliced maraschino cherries instead of currants.

  5. Mix either currants or cherries with syrup into the cheese before spreading.

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

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

  2. Bread + cream cheesetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together166 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Bread + curranttop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,398 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  4. Wheat + cream cheesetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together62 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  5. Cream cheese + curranttop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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

Swap the currant

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, bread, cream cheese, syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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