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Nut Sandwiches

A sandwich made with a nut mixture of almonds, peanuts, and walnuts spread between buttered bread slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and walnut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 993 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Nut Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. In a bowl, mix the chopped almonds, peanuts, walnuts, and cream or mayonnaise until well combined.

Assemble and serve

  1. Spread the nut mixture between slices of buttered bread.

  2. Cut the sandwiches into desired shapes and serve.

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. Almond + walnuttop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together993 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Almond + peanuttop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together305 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetylpyrazine (roast).

  3. Peanut + walnuttop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together241 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

  5. Almond + creamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

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

What each ingredient does

Almonds
Add crunch and a toasty, nutty flavor to the filling.
Peanuts
Add crunch and a rich, nutty flavor to the filling.
Walnuts
Add crunch and a slightly earthy, bittersweet note to the filling.
Cream or mayonnaise
Adds moisture and creaminess that binds the chopped nuts together.
Bread
Provides the structure that holds the nut filling in each sandwich.

Swap the peanut

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

  1. Pistachiofits better
  2. Brazil nutfits better
  3. Cashew nutfits better
  4. Peanutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against almond, walnut, cream, 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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