Name: Pepper Sandwiches
Ingredients: 2 green bell peppers, finely chopped; a few olives, chopped; ½ cup mayonnaise; slices of bread, very thin

Pepper Sandwiches

A sandwich made with a paste of finely chopped green bell peppers, olives, and mayonnaise spread between very thin bread slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription

From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients

Why it works: Olive and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,091 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Pepper Sandwiches

Ingredients

2 green bell peppers, finely chopped
a few olives, chopped
½ cup mayonnaise
slices of bread, very thin

Directions

Make the filling

In a bowl, mix the finely chopped green bell peppers, chopped olives, and mayonnaise to create a paste.

Assemble

Spread the paste between slices of very thin bread.

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.

Olive + breadtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,091 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Pepper + olivetop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together30,263 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Green bell peppers: Provide the main vegetable flavor and fresh crunch in the filling.
Olives: Add salty, briny flavor that contrasts with the mild peppers.
Mayonnaise: Binds the chopped vegetables into a spreadable paste and adds richness and moisture.

“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.