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Jelly Sandwiches

A sandwich made with crabapple jelly and cottage cheese on white bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cottage cheese and bread work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 72 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

Jelly Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Ensure the cottage cheese is rich and smooth; stir in a little cream if too stiff.

  2. Butter the white bread slices.

Assemble

  1. Spread half the slices with crabapple jelly and the other half with cottage cheese.

  2. Combine the two kinds by placing the jelly and cheese slices together.

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. Cottage cheese + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together72 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  2. Cottage cheese + creamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together146 recipes

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

  3. Cream + breadtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,789 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Cottage cheese
Provides a creamy, tangy filling that balances the sweetness of the jelly.
Crabapple jelly
Adds sweetness and fruity tartness as the main flavour of the filling.
White bread
Provides the soft structure that holds the filling together.

The step that matters

Ensure the cottage cheese is rich and smooth. Cottage cheese that is lumpy or too stiff will spread unevenly and tear the bread. A little cream loosens it into a smooth, spreadable filling.

“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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