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Cheese and Walnut Sandwiches

A sandwich made with melted cheese, cream, walnuts, and optional mayonnaise.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,130 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cheese and Walnut Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Melt the grated cheese in a bowl.

  2. Stir in the cream and chopped walnuts.

  3. Season with salt and pepper.

Assemble the sandwich

  1. Spread the mixture over slices of bread.

  2. Top with another slice of bread and press lightly together.

  3. Add mayonnaise if desired.

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.

Explore the science

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. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  2. Walnut + peppertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,039 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Cheese + walnuttop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together410 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  4. Cheese + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,655 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Grated cheese
Melts into a rich, binding base that holds the filling together.
Cream
Adds moisture and smoothness, keeping the melted cheese spreadable.
English walnuts
Add crunch and a nutty flavour that contrasts with the soft cheese.

The step that matters

Melting the cheese. Cheese cooked over too much heat can turn grainy or oily as its proteins tighten and fat separates. Melting gently and stirring in the cream helps keep the filling smooth and cohesive.

Swap the walnut

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

  1. Beansfits about as well
  2. Walnutthe original
  3. Lima beansfits about as well
  4. Chestnutfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, cream, pepper, 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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