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Nut-ginger Sandwiches

A sandwich made with bread, butter, preserved ginger, cream, and walnuts, tied with ribbon.

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 ↓

Nut-ginger Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Assemble

  1. Butter the three slices of bread.

  2. Between the first and second slice, place a layer of chopped preserved ginger mixed with cream.

  3. Between the second and third slice, add a layer of chopped English walnuts.

Finish

  1. Tie each sandwich neatly with baby ribbon.

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 + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Ginger + walnuttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together737 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Bread + walnuttop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together714 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Preserved ginger
Adds sweet, spicy flavour and a moist, chewy filling.
English walnuts
Add crunch and a nutty flavour to the filling.
Cream
Moistens the ginger so it spreads and holds together in the filling.

Swap the ginger

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

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Sagefits better
  3. Cinnamonfits better
  4. Gingerthe original

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