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Nutted Cheese Sandwiches

Cream cheese mixed with sweet cream, walnuts, salt, and cayenne.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Walnut and cream cheese work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 439 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Nutted Cheese Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Grate or finely chop the English walnut meats.

  2. Mash the Philadelphia cream cheese with enough sweet cream to create a paste.

Make the filling

  1. Gradually add the chopped nuts to the cheese mixture.

  2. Season with coarse sea salt and a dash of cayenne pepper.

  3. Ensure the mixture is soft enough to spread easily.

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. Walnut + cream cheesetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together439 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Walnut + peppertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Walnut + meattop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,035 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Cream cheese + creamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,087 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  5. Meat + cream cheesetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together102 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

English walnut meats
Provide the crunchy texture and nutty flavour that make up the filling.
Philadelphia cream cheese
Forms the creamy base that binds the filling and makes it spreadable.
Sweet cream
Adds moisture so the cream cheese can be loosened into a smooth paste.

The step that matters

Ensure the mixture is soft enough to spread easily. Cream cheese firms as it chills and the nuts stiffen the mix, so too little cream leaves a stiff filling that tears bread. Loosening with a little more cream while it is at room temperature keeps it spreadable.

“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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