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Other Sweet Sandwiches

A sandwich made with jam, jelly, honey, or sweetened apple pulp, whipped cream, and bread or cake slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 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 ↓

Other Sweet Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Spread jam, jelly, honey, or sweetened apple pulp on a slice of bread.

  2. Add a layer of whipped cream.

  3. Place another slice of bread on top.

  4. Repeat with Genoa or Madeira cake slices if desired.

  5. Serve immediately.

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Honey + appletop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together569 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Apple + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,790 recipes

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

  5. Honey + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,327 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

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

What each ingredient does

Whipped cream
Adds a soft, creamy layer that moistens the bread and softens the filling's bite.
Jam
Provides sweetness and fruity flavour that sets the sandwich's main taste.
White bread
Forms the structural outer layers that hold the filling together.

Swap the apple

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

  1. Figfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against honey, cream, 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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