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Nut Sandwiches

A sandwich of thin bread, butter, walnut and Swiss cheese mixture, lightly salted.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Nut Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the bread

  1. Butter the thin slices of bread.

  2. Cut the bread into fancy shapes.

Assemble

  1. Mix equal parts of chopped walnuts and grated Swiss cheese.

  2. Spread the walnut and cheese mixture on the bread.

  3. Sprinkle lightly with coarse sea salt.

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

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

  2. Butter + swiss cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together413 recipes

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

  3. Butter + walnuttop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,832 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Bread + swiss cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together35 recipes

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

  5. Walnut + swiss cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Adds fat and richness, and helps the filling stick to the bread.
Chopped walnuts
Add crunch and a nutty, toasty flavor to the filling.
Grated swiss cheese
Adds savory flavor and a creamy, binding texture to the filling.

Swap the walnut

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

  1. Pecansfits better
  2. Peasfits about as well
  3. Walnutthe original
  4. Almondfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, butter, swiss cheese. 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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