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Indian Sandwiches

A sandwich made with minced chicken, olives, anchovies, hot pickle, mayonnaise, mustard, and cress on buttered brown bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter 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 ↓

Indian Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Mince the chicken, olives, anchovies, and hot pickle very finely.

  2. In a bowl, combine the minced ingredients with the mayonnaise and mix well.

Assemble and serve

  1. Cut thin slices of brown bread and butter them.

  2. Spread a layer of the mixture between each slice of bread.

  3. Cut the sandwiches into neat shapes and serve garnished with mustard and cress.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Olive + mustardtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Olive + breadtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Meat + mustardtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together855 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Meat + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,924 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

White meat of chicken, pheasant, or rabbit
Provides the main protein bulk of the savoury filling.
Mayonnaise
Binds the minced ingredients together and adds moisture and richness.
Brown bread
Acts as the structure that holds the filling and gives the sandwich its base.
Butter
Spread on the bread to add fat and keep the bread from soaking up the filling.
Anchovies
Adds salty, savoury depth to the filling.

The step that matters

Mincing the filling very finely. Fine mincing spreads the strong flavours of olives, anchovies and pickle evenly through the meat and makes the mixture spread smoothly without tearing thin bread.

Swap the mustard

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

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Asparagusfits better
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, olive, bread, butter. 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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