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Peanut Sandwiches

A sandwich made with finely chopped peanuts mixed with butter, spread on bread, optionally topped with cheese and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 ↓

Peanut Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Chop the peanuts finely until they resemble meal.

  2. Mix the chopped peanuts with the butter until well combined.

Assemble

  1. Spread the peanut-butter mixture on thin slices of bread.

  2. Spread butter on the bread.

  3. Add a layer of chopped peanuts.

  4. Sprinkle with cheese and salt.

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.

Explore the science

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

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

  3. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  4. Peanut + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together97 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  5. Peanut + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,754 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

What each ingredient does

Peanuts
Provide the main filling, adding texture and a nutty flavour.
Butter
Binds the chopped peanuts and adds fat and richness to the filling.
Bread
Forms the structure and holds the filling in each sandwich.
Cheese
Adds a savoury flavour and extra richness to the sandwich.

The step that matters

Mix the chopped peanuts with the butter until well combined.. Thorough mixing spreads the fat evenly through the peanuts, so the filling spreads smoothly and avoids dry or greasy patches.

Swap the peanut

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

  1. Lima beansfits better
  2. Pecansfits better
  3. Walnutfits about as well
  4. Peanutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, bread, cheese. 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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