Name: Curry Sandwiches
Ingredients: remains of curried eggs; bread; butter

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 ↓

Curry Sandwiches

Ingredients

remains of curried eggs
bread
butter

Directions

Pound the remains of curried eggs in a mortar or chop them very finely.
Spread the mixture on slices of bread that have been buttered.

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.

Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,232 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together118,967 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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What each ingredient does

Remains of curried eggs: Provides the main filling, with moisture and savory curry flavor spread across the bread.
Bread: Acts as the base that holds the filling and gives the sandwich its structure.
Butter: Adds fat and richness to the bread and helps keep the filling from soaking in.

“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.