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Cheese Sandwiches

A sandwich made with various cheeses, breads, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 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. Cut American or Swiss cheese into thin slices.

  2. Spread a thin layer of French mustard on the cheese.

  3. Place the cheese between slices of buttered graham or rye bread.

  4. Mix grated cheese with coarse sea salt, paprika, and a little cream or butter.

  5. Spread the mixture between slices of brown bread.

  6. Soften cream cheese and spread it between thin slices of brown bread.

  7. Mix grated cheese and anchovies with coarse sea salt, paprika, and a little vinegar.

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. Cheese + cream cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together473 recipes

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

  3. Swiss cheese + cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together65 recipes

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

  4. Mustard + ryetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

American or swiss cheese
Melts and forms the main savoury filling layer between the bread slices.
Cream cheese
Adds a soft, spreadable creaminess that moistens the brown bread filling.
Grated cheese
Provides a concentrated, salty cheese flavour in the spreadable filling.
French mustard
Adds sharp acidity and pungency that cuts the richness of the cheese.

“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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