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Caviare Sandwiches

A sandwich made with buttered bread, caviar, lemon juice, and cayenne pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Caviare Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Make the sandwiches

  1. Butter the slices of bread.

  2. Spread caviar thinly over the slices.

  3. Sprinkle with lemon juice and cayenne pepper.

  4. Cover each with a second slice of buttered bread.

  5. Press them lightly together and cut into neat pieces.

Serve

  1. Serve arranged on a napkin or dish paper.

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. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  3. Butter + caviartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together107 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Bread + caviartop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together65 recipes

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

  5. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Bread
Provides a soft, neutral base and structure to hold the caviar filling.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture, and keeps the bread from soaking up the filling.
Caviar
Supplies the salty, briny flavor and luxurious texture that define the sandwich.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the rich butter and salty caviar.

The step that matters

Pressing the sandwiches together. Pressing too hard can crush the delicate caviar pearls and squeeze out the filling, while too light a press leaves the layers loose and slippery when cut. A gentle, even press keeps the eggs intact and the sandwich neatly bonded.

“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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