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Peanut Sandwiches

A sandwich made with roasted peanuts, mayonnaise, butter, and white bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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 ↓

Peanut Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peanuts

  1. Shell and remove the skins from the peanuts.

  2. Chop the peanuts very fine.

  3. Mix the chopped peanuts with mayonnaise.

Assemble the sandwiches

  1. Spread butter on slices of white bread.

  2. Remove the crusts from the bread.

  3. Spread the peanut mixture between the slices of 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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Peanut + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together97 recipes

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

  3. Peanut + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,754 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

What each ingredient does

Roasted peanuts
Provide the main filling, with chopped pieces giving a crunchy texture.
Mayonnaise
Binds the chopped peanuts into a spreadable mixture and adds moisture and richness.
Butter
Adds fat and flavor to the bread and helps keep the filling from soaking in.
White bread
Provides the soft structure that holds the filling.

Swap the peanut

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

  1. Lima beansfits better
  2. Pecansfits better
  3. Peasfits better
  4. Peanutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, 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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