Name: Sandwiches Filling
Ingredients: 3 or 4 hard-boiled eggs; 1 jar Mapleleaf cheese, finely chopped; ½ can pimentos; cooked dressing

Why it works: Egg and cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 28% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,253 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Sandwiches Filling

Ingredients

3 or 4 hard-boiled eggs
1 jar Mapleleaf cheese, finely chopped
½ can pimentos
cooked dressing

Directions

Chop the hard-boiled eggs and Mapleleaf cheese finely.
Add the pimentos and mix everything into the cooked dressing.
Spread the mixture on bread to make sandwiches.

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.

Egg + cheesetop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,253 recipes

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

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What each ingredient does

Hard-boiled eggs: Provide the bulk and soft, creamy texture of the filling.
Mapleleaf cheese: Adds savoury flavour and a rich, spreadable body to the filling.
Pimentos: Add mild sweetness, colour and a slightly tangy flavour.
Cooked dressing: Binds the chopped ingredients together and adds moisture and tang.

“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.