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Sandwiches, Adelaide

A sandwich made with sliced cooked chicken, ham, white bread, curry butter, and coarse sea salt.

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

Sandwiches, Adelaide

4 triangles
Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut the chicken and ham into very thin slices, removing all skin, gristle, and excess fat.

  2. Prepare thin slices of bread and spread them with curry butter.

Assemble and serve

  1. Add a slice of ham, then a layer of chicken, and sprinkle lightly with salt.

  2. Cover with another slice of bread and butter, pressing well to adhere.

  3. Trim away the crusts and cut into 4 triangles.

  4. Dish neatly on a folded napkin and garnish with watercress or parsley.

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

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

  2. Ham + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

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

  3. Chicken + hamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,497 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Chicken + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,258 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

  5. Chicken + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,902 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked chicken
Provides the main savoury filling and protein bulk in each sandwich.
Cooked ham
Adds salty, savoury flavour that contrasts with the chicken layer.
White bread
Forms the soft outer structure that holds the filling together.
Curry butter
Adds fat and spiced flavour, and helps the bread slices stick together.

The step that matters

Cover with another slice of bread and butter, pressing well to adhere.. Pressing firmly squeezes out air pockets and spreads the butter so the bread bonds to the filling. Without good contact, slices can slide apart when cut and the fillings can spill out.

“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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