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Cheshire Meat Sandwiches

A sandwich made with Cheshire cheese, butter, mustard, and thin slices of cold meat on sandwich bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 ↓

Cheshire Meat Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Make the cheese paste

  1. In a bowl, combine the butter, grated cheese, and mustard to form a smooth paste.

Assemble the sandwich

  1. Spread the paste on thin slices of sandwich bread.

  2. Layer thin slices of cold meat on top.

  3. Cover with another slice of bread and butter.

  4. Press down gently, cut into desired shapes, and serve.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  4. Cheese + mustardtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,805 recipes

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

  5. Mustard + meattop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together855 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Fresh butter
Softens the cheese into a spreadable paste and adds richness and moisture.
Grated cheshire cheese
Provides the main savoury flavour and body of the spread.
Mustard
Adds sharpness that balances the richness of the butter and cheese.
Sandwich bread
Forms the structure that holds the paste and meat together.

The step that matters

Combine the paste until smooth. Butter must be soft enough to blend evenly with the grated cheese and mustard. Lumps or cold butter leave uneven pockets of flavour and make the paste hard to spread on thin bread without tearing it.

Swap the mustard

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

  1. Potatofits about as well
  2. Tomatofits about as well
  3. Mustardthe original
  4. Asparagusfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, cheese, bread, meat. 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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