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Pastry Sandwiches

A puff pastry sandwich filled with apricot or peach jam, topped with sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Apricot and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,630 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Pastry Sandwiches

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Divide the puff pastry in half and roll each half into a square as thin as possible.

  2. Place one half on a buttered baking sheet and spread it lightly with jam.

  3. Cover with the second half, pressing the edges together with a rolling pin.

  4. If using the second method, moisten the edges with water or beaten egg before sealing.

Bake and serve

  1. Mark the pastry into divisions and bake in a preheated oven at 350°F (175°C) for 15 to 20 minutes.

  2. Brush the top with water and sprinkle with sifted sugar.

  3. Cut into pieces while still hot along the marked divisions.

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. Apricot + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,630 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  2. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Apricot + eggtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,712 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

Puff pastry
Its layers puff and crisp in the oven, giving the sandwich a flaky texture.
Apricot or peach jam
Adds sweetness and fruity moisture that fills the pastry between the layers.
Beaten egg
Can seal the edges and promote browning on the pastry surface.

The step that matters

Sealing the edges. If the edges are not pressed firmly together, the jam can leak out during baking and the pastry may not puff evenly. Moistening the edges helps them bond.

Swap the apricot

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, sugar):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Apricotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar. 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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