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Cheese and Jelly Sandwich

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and dates work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 100 recipes. Both carry acetic acid, which smells sour, vinegar. The science ↓

Cheese and Jelly Sandwich

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Spread cream cheese on slices of bread.

  2. Add a layer of jelly on top.

  3. Place another slice of bread on top to form a sandwich.

  4. Toast the sandwich until golden brown.

  5. For an alternative, mix cream cheese with chopped dates and nuts and serve as a filling for graham crackers.

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 + datestop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together100 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  2. Dates + nutstop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together178 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Bread + cream cheesetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together166 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Bread + nutstop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together174 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Cream cheese + nutstop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together56 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

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

Swap the nuts

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

  1. Pecansfits better
  2. Walnutfits better
  3. Almondfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, cream cheese, dates. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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