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Cherry Sandwiches

A sandwich made with crushed cherries, almonds, lemon juice, and sugar, served between bread or sponge cake.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Cherry Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Stone, crush, and drain the cherries.

  2. Add the chopped almonds, lemon juice, and sugar to the cherries, mixing until very sweet.

Assemble and serve

  1. Spread the mixture between thin slices of bread and butter or between slices of sponge cake.

  2. Serve while fresh.

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.

Explore the science

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. Almond + lemontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Almond + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Lemon + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Almond + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together858 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetylpyrazine (roast).

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

What each ingredient does

Cherries
Provide the main fruit flavor and moisture for the filling.
Blanched almonds
Add a chopped, crunchy texture that contrasts with the soft filling.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweetness of the cherries.
Sugar
Sweetens the filling and balances the tartness of the fruit and lemon.
Bread or sponge cake
Forms the structure that holds the filling between its layers.

The step that matters

Spreading the filling between bread with butter. Cherries release juice as they sit, which can soak into bread and make it soggy. A layer of butter on the bread forms a fat barrier that slows moisture absorption, so the sandwiches hold together better when served.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Raisinfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against almond, sugar, 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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