Name: Brown and White Bread Sandwiches
Ingredients: Brown bread; White bread; Butter; Nuts

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 ↓

Brown and White Bread Sandwiches

Ingredients

Brown bread
White bread
Butter
Nuts

Directions

Cut thin slices of brown and white bread.
Spread butter on each slice.
Add chopped nuts on top of the butter.
Press one slice of brown bread and one slice of white bread together.
Use any desired filling between the slices.

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.

Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,232 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Bread + nutstop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together174 recipes

Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).
Butter + nutstop 19% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,291 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).