Name: Fillings for Sandwiches
Ingredients: 8 oz cream cheese; 1 small bottle stuffed olives; 2 tablespoons salad dressing

Why it works: Cream cheese and olive are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,003 recipes. Both carry methyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells apple, fatty. The science ↓

Fillings for Sandwiches

Ingredients

8 oz cream cheese
1 small bottle stuffed olives
2 tablespoons salad dressing

Directions

Chop the olives and mix them with the cream cheese.
Soften the mixture with salad dressing.

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 cheese + olivetop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,003 recipes

Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Cream cheese: Provides the creamy base and body of the spread.
Stuffed olives: Add salty, savoury flavour and texture through their chopped pieces.
Salad dressing: Adds tang and loosens the mixture to a spreadable softness.

“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.