Name: Swiss Cheese Sandwiches
Ingredients: porous, leathery Swiss cheese; French mustard; buttered bread

Why it works: Swiss cheese and mustard work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 175 recipes. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Swiss Cheese Sandwiches

Ingredients

porous, leathery Swiss cheese
French mustard
buttered bread

Directions

Shave the Swiss cheese into thin slices.
Spread a little French mustard on the cheese.
Place the cheese between slices of buttered bread.
Cut the sandwiches into larger sizes than usual.

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.

Swiss cheese + mustardtop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together175 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Swiss cheese + breadtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together35 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Mustard + breadtop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,484 recipes

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