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Sandwich Combinations

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 22 ingredients
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Why it works: Dates and fig work together. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 318 recipes. Both carry 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol, which smells clove, smoky. The science ↓

Sandwich Combinations

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Moisten chopped dried fruits with orange juice.

  2. Mix chopped dates, figs, and nuts.

  3. Combine hard-boiled egg yolks with melted butter, salt, and cayenne; add chopped nasturtiums if using.

  4. Mix chopped chicken with celery.

  5. Combine lamb, mutton, mint leaves, and catsup.

  6. Mix peas with mayonnaise.

  7. Combine tomato jelly with mayonnaise.

  8. Layer sliced quinces with guava jelly.

  9. Mix chopped nuts with a little melted butter.

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. Dates + figtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together318 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  2. Fig + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together407 recipes

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

  3. Orange + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,402 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  4. Dates + orangetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together151 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  5. Fig + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together203 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

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

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (dates, fig, orange, egg, butter, pepper, chicken):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Walnutfits better
  3. Pecansfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against dates, fig, orange, egg, butter, pepper, chicken. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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