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Dutch Cheese Sandwiches

A sandwich made with Dutch cheese, olives, lettuce, and seasoned with salt and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Olive and lettuce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,580 recipes. Both carry trans-2-hexenal, which smells green, leafy. The science ↓

Dutch Cheese Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Season Dutch cheese with coarse sea salt and black pepper. Mix in chopped olives to taste.

Assemble and serve

  1. Spread the mixture on thin slices of bread.

  2. Place a lettuce leaf between two slices and cut into fancy shapes.

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 + lettucetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,580 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Pepper + lettucetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,037 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Pepper + olivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Dutch cheese
Provides the main body, richness and fat that carry the sandwich filling.
Chopped olives
Adds salty, briny flavour that contrasts with the mild cheese.
Thin slices of bread
Hold the filling and give the sandwich its structure when cut.
Lettuce leaves
Add a cool, crisp texture and fresh moisture between the slices.

Swap the lettuce

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, pepper, olive, 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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