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Adelaide Sandwiches

A sandwich made with cooked chicken, cooked ham, white bread, and curry butter, served with watercress or parsley.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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 ↓

Adelaide Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

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

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

Assemble and serve

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

  2. Cover with another slice of bread and butter, pressing firmly 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 the sandwich.
Cooked ham
Adds a salty, savoury layer that complements the chicken filling.
White bread
Forms the soft outer layers that hold the filling together.
Curry butter
Adds fat and moisture to the bread and carries the curry flavour through the sandwich.

The step that matters

Pressing the sandwich together. Pressing firmly helps the bread absorb the curry butter and bond to the filling, so the sandwich holds its shape when cut and eaten. Thin, even slices also keep the filling from sliding 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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