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Ginger Sandwiches

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream cheese and ginger work together. They rank in the top 25% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 217 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, pear. The science ↓

Ginger Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut thin slices of plain gingerbread.

  2. Spread soft cream cheese on one side of each slice.

  3. Place a thin slice of preserved ginger between two slices of gingerbread.

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. Cream cheese + gingertop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together217 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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

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