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Habitant Sandwiches

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and cheese work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 294 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Habitant Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Prepare buttered slices from a roll loaf.

  2. Peel and slice large apples to fit on the bread.

  3. Remove the seeds and core from the apple slices.

  4. Place the apple slices on the lower slice of bread.

  5. Sprinkle a little cheese over the apple or spread with rich mayonnaise.

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. Apple + cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together294 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

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