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Turkey and Tongue Sandwich

A sandwich made with thinly sliced turkey white meat and tongue, spread with mustard and butter on bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread 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 ↓

Turkey and Tongue Sandwich

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the white meat of turkey and tongue into very thin slices.

  2. Spread mustard and butter on slices of bread.

  3. Arrange the turkey and tongue slices on the mustard-buttered bread.

  4. Cover the sandwiches, trim the edges, and cut them into square or diamond shapes.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Turkey + breadtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together822 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Meat + turkeytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together540 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  4. Meat + mustardtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together855 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Turkey + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,592 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

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

What each ingredient does

Turkey white meat
Provides the main lean, savoury filling in thin slices.
Tongue
Adds a rich, tender meat layer to the filling.
Butter
Adds fat and moisture that keeps the bread from soaking up the filling.
Mustard
Adds sharp acidity that cuts through the richness of the meats and butter.
Bread
Forms the structure that holds the thin slices together.

Swap the mustard

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

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Shallotfits better
  3. Potatofits better
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, turkey, butter, 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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