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Cheese and Pimento Sandwiches

A sandwich made with a spread of cream cheese and pimentos, seasoned with salt and salad dressing, served on buttered bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Cheese and Pimento Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Grind the pimentos using a food chopper.

  2. Transfer to a fine plate and grind the cream cheese.

  3. Add salt and enough salad dressing to achieve a spreadable consistency.

  4. Gently mix in the pimentos.

Assemble and store

  1. Slice the bread thinly and cut into triangles or heart shapes.

  2. Spread soft butter on one slice and the cheese mixture on another.

  3. Press the slices together and wrap each sandwich in waxed paper.

  4. Store in a covered container until ready to serve.

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. Cream cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,747 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Cream cheese + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together166 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

What each ingredient does

Fresh cream cheese
Provides the creamy, spreadable base that holds the filling together.
Pimentos
Add sweet, mild flavour and colour to the cheese filling.
Salad dressing
Adds tang and moisture so the cheese mixture becomes spreadable.
Home-made bread
Forms the structure that holds the filling and gives the sandwich its body.
Soft butter
Adds fat and richness and keeps the bread from soaking up moisture from the filling.

The step that matters

Adding the salad dressing. Dressing should be added gradually until the cheese is spreadable. Too much makes the filling loose and soggy, which can soak through thin bread.

“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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