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Delicious Sandwiches

A sweet mixture of finely chopped raisins and nuts blended with whipped cream and a pinch of salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Raisin and nuts work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 490 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Delicious Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Chop the raisins and nuts very fine.

  2. In a bowl, combine the chopped raisins and nuts.

  3. Moisten the mixture with whipped cream.

  4. Season with salt and mix well.

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. Raisin + nutstop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together490 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Nuts + creamtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together886 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  3. Raisin + creamtop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,642 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

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

What each ingredient does

Raisins
Provide sweetness and chewy body to the cream.
Nuts
Add texture and a toasty, rich flavor to the mixture.
Whipped cream
Adds moisture and fat, softening the chopped mixture into a spreadable cream.

The step that matters

Chop the raisins and nuts very fine. Fine chopping lets the mixture hold together and spread smoothly. Large pieces stay separate and make the cream gritty and crumbly rather than cohesive.

Swap the raisin

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Raisinthe original
  4. Strawberryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against nuts, cream. 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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