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A Dbessing Fob Sandwiches

A sandwich with a butter, mustard, and sweet oil dressing and chopped tongue, ham, and optional cold chicken.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 ↓

A Dbessing Fob Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dressing

  1. In a bowl, combine the butter, mustard, sweet oil, pepper, salt, and egg yolk. Mix until smooth.

  2. Chill the mixture in the refrigerator.

Assemble the sandwiches

  1. Finely chop the tongue, ham, and optional cold chicken.

  2. Spread the dressing on a slice of bread. Layer the chopped meats on top, then add another slice of bread and press together firmly.

  3. Trim the edges to make the sandwiches uniform in size.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Ham + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

  3. Mustard + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

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

  4. Mustard + chickentop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,192 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).

  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

Butter
Adds richness and fat, giving the dressing a smooth, spreadable body.
Egg yolk
Emulsifies the butter and oil so the dressing holds together smoothly.
Mixed mustard
Adds sharp, tangy flavour that cuts through the richness of the meats and butter.
Tongue
Provides the main meaty flavour and texture in the filling.
Ham
Adds savoury, salty flavour and chewy texture to the filling.

The step that matters

Chill the dressing before assembling. Chilling firms the butter-and-yolk emulsion so it stays thick and spreadable instead of soaking into the bread.

Swap the mustard

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Potatofits about as well
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, pepper, egg, ham, chicken, 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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