Name: Sweet Bread Sandwiches
Ingredients: sweet breads; lettuce; blanched almonds; mayonnaise; bread

Why it works: Lettuce and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 210 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Sweet Bread Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Pull apart the sweet breads into small bits.
Chop the lettuce and a few blanched almonds.
Prepare a dry mayonnaise dressing.
Mix the mayonnaise with the minced sweet breads, almonds, and lettuce.
Spread the mixture on slices of bread.

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.

Lettuce + almondtop 4% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together210 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Bread + lettucetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together602 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Bread + almondtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together858 recipes

Shared aroma: acetylpyrazine (roast).