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Cream Cheese and Parsley Sandwiches

A sandwich made with cream cheese, chopped parsley, paprika, and bread or butter thins.

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 ↓

Cream Cheese and Parsley Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Wash and dry the parsley, then remove the stems and chop the leaves finely.

  2. Mix the chopped parsley with the cream cheese and a generous amount of paprika until well combined.

Assemble and serve

  1. Spread the mixture on slices of bread or butter thins.

  2. Press the slices together and serve immediately.

  3. Decorate the serving plate with parsley.

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. Cream cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Parsley + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together28,563 recipes

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

  4. Parsley + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,588 recipes

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

  5. Cream cheese + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together166 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

What each ingredient does

Cream cheese
Provides a creamy, fatty base that spreads smoothly and holds the other flavors.
Parsley
Adds a fresh, herbal aroma and green flavor that balances the richness of the cheese.
Paprika
Adds mild sweetness, warm color, and a gentle aroma to the filling.

The step that matters

Serve immediately after pressing. Moisture from the cream cheese soaks into the bread over time, softening it and dulling its texture, so the sandwiches are best eaten right after they are assembled.

Swap the parsley

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

  1. Capersfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Cinnamonfits about as well
  4. Parsleythe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, 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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