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Cheese Sandwiches

A sandwich made by spreading a creamy cheese mixture on lightly buttered bread or crackers.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 ↓

Cheese Sandwiches

Oven, in the book's wordsA slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, combine grated cheese, sweet cream, melted butter, mayonnaise or mustard, and coarse sea salt.

  2. Rub the mixture to a smooth cream.

  3. Spread the cheese mixture on thin slices of lightly buttered bread or zephyr crackers.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Cheese + mustardtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,805 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Grated cheese
Provides the main flavor and, when softened, a spreadable body for the filling.
Melted butter
Adds richness and helps the mixture blend into a smooth, spreadable cream.
Sweet cream
Adds moisture and softness, helping the cheese blend into a smooth spread.
Mayonnaise
Adds fat and emulsified creaminess, giving the spread a smoother, softer texture.

The step that matters

Rub the mixture to a smooth cream. Cheese left in lumps will tear thin bread and spread unevenly. Working the grated cheese with fat and liquid breaks it into a uniform paste that holds together and spreads evenly.

Swap the mustard

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

  1. Potatofits better
  2. Onionfits about as well
  3. Asparagusfits about as well
  4. Mustardthe original

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