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Peanut Sandwiches

A sandwich made with whole wheat bread, butter, roasted salted peanuts, and mayonnaise.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Wheat and peanut match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 151 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Peanut Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cut whole wheat bread into thin circular slices.

  2. Butter one side of each slice.

  3. Finely chop the roasted salted peanuts.

Assemble

  1. Mix the chopped peanuts with enough mayonnaise to create a spreadable filling.

  2. Spread the peanut mixture on the buttered side of one slice and top with another slice, buttered side down.

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. Wheat + peanuttop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together151 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Wheat + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together209 recipes

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

  4. Wheat + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  5. Bread + peanuttop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together97 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Whole wheat bread
Provides the structure and body that holds the filling.
Butter
Adds fat and richness and creates a barrier that helps keep the bread from soaking up the filling.
Roasted salted peanuts
Supply the main flavor and crunch in the filling.
Mayonnaise
Binds the chopped peanuts into a spreadable filling and adds moisture and richness.

Swap the peanut

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

  1. Walnutfits about as well
  2. Almondfits about as well
  3. Peanutthe original
  4. Pecansfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against wheat, 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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