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Cheese and Nut Sandwiches

A sandwich made with soft cheese, walnuts, lettuce, and buttered bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Walnut and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 491 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Cheese and Nut Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, mix the soft cheese and chopped walnuts until well combined.

  2. Spread butter on slices of bread.

Assemble and serve

  1. Spread the cheese and walnut mixture on one slice of buttered bread.

  2. Add bits of lettuce on top of the mixture.

  3. Top with another slice of buttered bread and serve.

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 + lettucetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together491 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  2. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  3. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  4. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  5. Cheese + walnuttop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together410 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

Soft cheese
Provides a creamy, spreadable base that holds the sandwich filling together.
Chopped walnuts
Adds crunch and a nutty flavor that contrasts with the soft cheese.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the bread and helps keep it from soaking up moisture from the filling.
Lettuce
Adds moisture and a fresh, crisp texture to the sandwich.

Swap the lettuce

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cheese, walnut, bread, butter):

  1. Capsicumfits about as well
  2. Lettucethe original
  3. Mustardfits about as well
  4. Potatofits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, walnut, bread, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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