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Almond Sandwiches

A sandwich made with finely chopped blanched almonds mixed with mayonnaise dressing and spread between 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 ↓

Almond Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the blanched almonds very finely.

  2. Mix the chopped almonds with mayonnaise dressing.

Assemble

  1. Spread the mixture between slices of buttered bread.

  2. Cut the sandwiches into fancy shapes.

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. Almond + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Almond + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together858 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetylpyrazine (roast).

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

What each ingredient does

Blanched almonds
Provide the main filling texture and nutty flavour once finely chopped.
Mayonnaise dressing
Binds the chopped almonds into a spreadable filling and adds moisture and richness.
Bread
Forms the sandwich structure that holds the almond filling.
Butter
Adds fat and flavour to the bread and keeps it from soaking up the filling.

Swap the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, bread):

  1. Lima beansfits better
  2. Pecansfits better
  3. Peasfits about as well
  4. Almondthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, bread. 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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