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Cream Cheese and Sweet Pepper Sandwiches

A sandwich made with cream cheese and sweet peppers, spread on buttered bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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 ↓

Cream Cheese and Sweet Pepper Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the peppers

  1. Scald the peppers to remove the biting taste.

  2. Drain the peppers.

  3. Chill the peppers on ice for several hours.

  4. Wipe the peppers.

  5. Mince the peppers.

Make the filling

  1. Mix the cream cheese and minced peppers into a smooth paste.

  2. Spread the mixture on lightly buttered bread.

Assemble

  1. Assemble the 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.

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

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

  2. Cream cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Cream cheese + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together166 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Pepper + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Cream cheese
Provides a smooth, creamy base that holds the minced peppers together and gives the spread its richness.
Sweet peppers
Supply the main flavor and sweetness of the filling, with their bite reduced by scalding.
Butter
Adds fat and richness to the bread and helps keep it from soaking up the filling.

The step that matters

Scald the peppers. Brief scalding softens the sharp compounds that cause the biting taste while keeping the peppers firm. Overcooking makes them limp and watery, which thins the paste and soaks into the bread.

“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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