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Grilled Jam and Cheese Sandwich Recipe

A fast grilled cheese sandwich recipe for breakfast filled with strawberry jam and cream cheese.

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Why it works: Bread and butter match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 27,145 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

2 sandwiches
Cook15 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Spread the room-temperature butter evenly over the outside face of each of the four bread slices.

  2. Spread cream cheese on the unbuttered side of two slices and jam on the unbuttered side of the other two slices.

  3. Press one cream cheese slice and one jam slice together, filling sides facing, to make two sandwiches with the buttered sides on the outside.

  4. Heat a large skillet over medium-low heat for about 2 minutes.

  5. Place the sandwiches in the skillet and cook 3 to 4 minutes until the bottoms are deep golden brown.

  6. Flip the sandwiches and cook another 3 to 4 minutes until golden and the cream cheese has softened.

  7. Transfer to a cutting board, let rest 1 minute, then cut diagonally and serve warm.

By chow. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Bread + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,145 recipes

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

  2. Cream cheese + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together19 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  4. Bread + cream cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together166 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  5. Strawberry jam + buttertop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together170 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the strawberry jam

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

  1. Applebetter flavor fit
  2. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  3. Strawberrybetter flavor fit
  4. Strawberry jamthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, cream cheese, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).