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Cheese and Jam Sandwiches

A simple sandwich made with thinly sliced brown bread, jam or marmalade, and cheese.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,130 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cheese and Jam Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Slice the brown bread thinly.

Assemble and serve

  1. Spread a layer of jam or marmalade on one slice.

  2. Spread a layer of cheese over the jam.

  3. Top with another slice of bread.

  4. Press gently and serve.

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 + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  2. Strawberry + cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together108 recipes

    Shared aroma: 5-ethyl-3-hydroxy-4-methyl-2(5h)-furanone (spice).

  3. Bread + strawberrytop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together32 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Brown bread
Provides the structure that holds the filling together.
Jam or marmalade
Adds sweetness and moisture that contrast with the savory cheese.
Cheese
Adds fat and savory flavor to the filling.

Swap the strawberry

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

  1. Figfits better
  2. Applefits better
  3. Pearfits better
  4. Strawberrythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, cheese. 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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