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Raisin Sandwich

A sandwich made with raisins, walnuts, egg white, and vanilla, spread between bread slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Walnut and vanilla match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,730 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Raisin Sandwich

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, mix the chopped raisins and walnut meats.

  2. Add the well-beaten egg white and vanilla, and mix until combined.

  3. Spread the mixture between slices of bread to make a sandwich.

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. Walnut + vanillatop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,730 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Raisin + vanillatop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together782 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  3. Raisin + walnuttop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together647 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Walnut + meattop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,035 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Meat + eggtop 22% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,432 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Raisins
Provide sweetness and chewy texture in the filling.
Walnuts
Add crunch and a rich, nutty flavor to the filling.
Egg white
Binds the filling together so it holds its shape between bread slices.

Swap the vanilla

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (raisin, walnut, meat, egg):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Datesfits about as well
  4. Vanillathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against raisin, walnut, meat, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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