Name: Cream Filling for Sandwiches
Ingredients: 1 roll of cream cheese; 25 queen olives, chopped finely; enough cream to spread

Why it works: Cream and spread share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 96 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cream Filling for Sandwiches

25 sandwiches

Ingredients

1 roll of cream cheese
25 queen olives, chopped finely
enough cream to spread

Directions

In a bowl, mix the cream cheese and chopped olives.
Add cream gradually until the mixture is spreadable.
Use this filling to make 25 sandwiches.

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.

Cream + spreadtop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together96 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Cream cheese + spreadtop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together101 recipes

Shared aroma: decanoic acid (soapy, waxy).
Cream cheese + olivetop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,003 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).
Cream cheese + creamtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together1,087 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).
Olive + spreadtop 20% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together142 recipes

Shared aroma: ethyl acetate (pineapple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Cream cheese: Forms the creamy base that holds the filling together and gives it body.
Queen olives: Add salty, briny flavour and bits of texture throughout the filling.
Cream: Loosens the cream cheese so the filling becomes smooth and spreadable.

“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.