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Olive Sandwiches

A sandwich made with finely chopped olives and red pepper mixed with mayonnaise, spread on thin brown bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Olive Sandwiches

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 ↓

Olive Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the olives and red pepper very finely.

Assemble

  1. Mix the chopped olives and pepper with the mayonnaise.

  2. Spread the mixture on thin slices of brown bread.

  3. Press two slices together to form a sandwich.

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. Olive + breadtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  2. Olive + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

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

  3. 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

Olives
Provide the salty, briny flavour that defines the filling.
Mayonnaise
Binds the chopped olives and pepper and keeps the filling moist and spreadable.
Red pepper
Adds sweetness, crisp texture and colour to the filling.
Brown bread
Forms the structure that holds the filling and gives a firmer, nuttier base.

The step that matters

Chop the olives and red pepper very finely. Fine, even pieces spread smoothly on thin bread and distribute flavour evenly. Large chunks tear the bread and make bites uneven.

“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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