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Nut Butter Sandwiches

A sandwich made by spreading nut butter on bread and optionally adding salt, thin slices of protose, or lettuce with dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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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 ↓

Nut Butter Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the loaf of bread in half.

  2. Spread nut butter on the cut surfaces of each half.

  3. Sprinkle with coarse sea salt if desired.

Assemble

  1. Cut a thin slice from each half with a sharp knife.

  2. Lay the two spread surfaces together.

  3. Repeat spreading and cutting until you have the desired number of sandwiches.

  4. Optionally, add thin slices of protose or a lettuce leaf with salad dressing 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.

  1. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Bread + lettucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together602 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Butter + lettucetop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Nut butter
Provides fat and rich flavor that coats the bread and carries the sandwich's taste.

Swap the lettuce

The recipe marks lettuce as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, butter):

  1. Leekfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, butter. 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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