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Peanut Sandwiches

A sandwich made with bread, butter, and ground peanuts.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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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 ↓

Peanut Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Shell and grind the peanuts moderately fine.

  2. Cut the bread into slices about ¼ inch thick.

Assemble

  1. Dip one side of each slice in melted butter.

  2. While the butter is still soft, sprinkle generously with the ground peanuts.

  3. Salt the peanuts if desired.

Serve

  1. Serve the sandwiches with or without crusts, cut into any desired shape.

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.

Explore the science

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. Peanut + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together97 recipes

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

  3. Peanut + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,754 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

What each ingredient does

Peanuts
Provide the main filling and a toasty, nutty flavor.
Bread
Forms the base and holds the peanuts and butter together.
Melted butter
Adds richness and helps the ground peanuts stick to the bread.

The step that matters

Sprinkle the peanuts while the butter is still soft. Melted butter sets as it cools, so peanuts sprinkled later will not adhere well. Pressing them on while the butter is warm lets them bond to the bread surface.

Swap the peanut

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

  1. Lima beansfits better
  2. Pecansfits better
  3. Peasfits better
  4. Peanutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, butter. 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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