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Olive Sandwiches

A sandwich made with pitted olives, pepper, buttered bread, and finely-chopped tongue.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Olive Sandwiches

Why it works: Bread and butter 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 ↓

Olive Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the olives

  1. Stone the olives.

  2. Mince the olives.

  3. Season with pepper.

  4. Pound the olives to a smooth paste.

Prepare the bread

  1. Cut the bread into thin slices.

  2. Butter the sliced bread.

Assemble the sandwiches

  1. Spread half of the slices with the pounded olives and the other half with the finely-chopped tongue.

  2. Press the two halves together lightly.

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. Bread + buttertop 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. Olive + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,887 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 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

Olives
Provide the main flavour of the filling and, once pounded, a smooth spreadable texture.
Tongue
Supplies the savoury meat filling for the other half of the sandwiches.
Butter
Adds fat and richness and helps keep the bread from soaking up the filling.
Bread
Forms the structure that holds the filling together.

The step that matters

Pound the olives to a smooth paste. Olives that remain lumpy spread unevenly and tear the thin bread. Pounding breaks the pieces down so the filling forms an even layer that holds together when the sandwich is pressed.

“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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