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Walnut-and-cheese Sandwiches

A sandwich made with chopped walnuts, cream cheese, and sea salt spread between buttered Boston brown bread slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Walnut and cream cheese work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 439 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Walnut-and-cheese Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chop the walnuts or hickory nuts finely.

  2. Mix the chopped nuts with the cream cheese.

  3. Add coarse sea salt to taste.

  4. Spread the mixture between thin slices of buttered Boston brown bread.

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. Walnut + cream cheesetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together439 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Cream cheese + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together166 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Walnut + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together714 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

Walnuts or hickory nuts
Provide the crunchy, rich nut texture and flavor that forms the filling.
Cream cheese
Binds the chopped nuts into a spreadable filling and adds creamy moisture and richness.
Boston brown bread
Supplies the soft, lightly sweet slices that hold the filling between them.

Swap the walnut

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

  1. Pecansfits better
  2. Walnutthe original
  3. Peasfits about as well
  4. Peanutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, 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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