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Baked Bean Sandwiches

A sandwich made with baked beans, horseradish, French mustard, and thin brown bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Horseradish and mustard match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,832 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Baked Bean Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Slice the brown bread very thin.

  2. Mash the baked beans with a fork.

  3. Add the horseradish and a bit of French mustard to the mashed beans.

  4. Spread the mixture on the sliced 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. Horseradish + mustardtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,832 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Beans + mustardtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together852 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Beans + horseradishtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together78 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Beans + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together332 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Bread + mustardtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,484 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Baked beans
Provides the bulk and soft, moist filling that spreads easily over the bread.
Brown bread
Provides the structure and base that holds the spread.
Horseradish
Adds sharp, pungent heat that cuts through the sweetness of the beans.
French mustard
Adds tangy sharpness that brightens the flavour of the beans.

Swap the beans

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

  1. Lentilsfits about as well
  2. Chestnutfits about as well
  3. Beansthe original
  4. Chickpeafits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, horseradish, mustard. 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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