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Olive Sandwich

A toasted bread sandwich with peanut butter, Neufchatel cheese, and minced olives.

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 ↓

Olive Sandwich

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Toast the slices of bread until golden brown.

  2. Spread a thin layer of peanut butter on each slice.

  3. Add a layer of Neufchatel cheese on top of the peanut butter.

  4. Sprinkle minced olives over the cheese.

  5. Optionally, use olives stuffed with pimentos.

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. Peanut + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,027 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Bread + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Bread + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Bread
Provides the crisp, toasted base that holds the other layers.
Peanut butter
Adds fat and richness that binds the layers together.
Neufchatel cheese
Adds a soft, creamy layer that moistens the sandwich.
Minced olives
Adds salty, briny flavor that contrasts with the rich spreads.

Swap the peanut

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

  1. Beansfits about as well
  2. Walnutfits about as well
  3. Almondfits about as well
  4. Peanutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, butter, cheese, olive. 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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