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Corona Sandwich

A rye bread sandwich spread with creamy Petaluma cheese, stuffed olives, cayenne pepper, and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,130 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Corona Sandwich

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Mash the Petaluma cheese until smooth.

  2. Chop the stuffed olives finely and stir them into the cheese.

  3. Season the mixture with cayenne pepper.

  4. Moisten with cream until it reaches a spreadable consistency.

Assemble

  1. Spread the mixture on rye 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.

  1. Bread + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  2. Rye + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  3. Bread + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Olive + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,263 recipes

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

  5. Cheese + olivetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,802 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

Petaluma cheese
Provides the rich, creamy base that binds the filling together.
Stuffed olives
Add salty, briny flavor and bits of texture throughout the filling.
Cream
Adds moisture and fat so the cheese becomes smooth and spreadable.
Rye bread
Serves as the sturdy base that holds the spread.

The step that matters

Moisten with cream until it reaches a spreadable consistency. Cheese stiffens as it sits and cold fat is firm, so adding cream gradually lets the fat and water loosen the mixture. Adding it all at once can make the filling runny and hard to control.

“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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