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Cheese Sandwiches

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Swiss cheese and cream cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 54 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Cheese Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place thin slices of Swiss cheese between wafers or thin slices of bread.

  2. Alternatively, mix finely chopped nuts and a little cream into Philadelphia cream cheese and spread on wafers.

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. Swiss cheese + cream cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together54 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Swiss cheese + creamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together174 recipes

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

  3. Cream cheese + creamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,087 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  4. Swiss cheese + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together35 recipes

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

  5. Bread + cream cheesetop 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

Swap the nuts

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

  1. Pecansfits better
  2. Walnutfits better
  3. Beansfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against swiss cheese, bread, cream cheese, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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