Name: Bacon and Stuffed Olive Sandwich
Ingredients: 4 slices of bacon; ½ cup stuffed olives, chopped; ¼ cup mayonnaise; 4 slices of thinly sliced bread

Why it works: Olive and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,091 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Bacon and Stuffed Olive Sandwich

Ingredients

4 slices of bacon
½ cup stuffed olives, chopped
¼ cup mayonnaise
4 slices of thinly sliced bread

Directions

Make the filling

Fry the bacon until crispy, then break it into small pieces.
Mix the bacon with the chopped stuffed olives.
Add the mayonnaise and combine well.

Assemble

Spread the mixture on the slices of bread.

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.

Olive + breadtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,091 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Bacon: Adds salty, smoky flavour and a crisp texture to the filling.
Stuffed olives: Contribute briny, salty flavour and a chopped texture that contrasts with the bacon.
Mayonnaise: Binds the bacon and olives together and adds richness and moisture.

“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.