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Savory Sandwiches

A sandwich made with cream cheese, chopped hard‑boiled egg, green pepper, olives, onion juice, and mayonnaise on white bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,779 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Savory Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chop the hard-boiled egg and green pepper very finely.

  2. Chop the stuffed olives and mix with the egg and green pepper.

  3. Add onion juice and mix with mayonnaise.

  4. Spread the mixture between triangles of fresh white 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. Onion + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,779 recipes

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

  2. Olive + breadtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together68,474 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + olivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

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

  5. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Hard-boiled egg
Adds body and a firm, creamy texture to the spread.
Mayonnaise dressing
Adds moisture and fat, binding the chopped ingredients into a spreadable filling.
Stuffed olives
Add salty, briny flavor and a bit of chew to the filling.
Green pepper
Adds crisp texture and fresh, slightly bitter flavor.
Onion juice
Adds sharp aroma and savory flavor without adding solid pieces.
Fresh white bread
Provides a soft base that holds the filling and is eaten with it.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream cheese, pepper, egg, olive, bread):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Tomatofits better
  3. Chivefits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, pepper, egg, olive, bread. 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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