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Nasturtium Sandwiches

A sandwich made with ground sausages, cheese, ketchup, and nasturtium leaves.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,130 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Nasturtium Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Peel and grind the winnies.

  2. Mix the ground winnies with the ground cheese.

  3. Add the tomato ketchup or salad dressing to achieve a spreadable consistency.

  4. Season with salt to taste.

Assemble

  1. Spread the mixture between slices of slightly buttered round cream bread.

  2. Add nasturtium leaves between the slices.

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. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  2. Tomato + breadtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,013 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Cheese + tomatotop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,896 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Cheese + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,655 recipes

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

  5. Cream + breadtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,789 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Winnies
Provide the main savoury filling and body of the spread.
Ground cheese
Adds richness and fat, helping bind the filling into a spread.
Tomato ketchup or salad dressing
Adds moisture and acidity so the filling becomes spreadable.

Swap the tomato

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

  1. Potatofits about as well
  2. Tomatothe original
  3. Mustardfits about as well
  4. Onionfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, cream, 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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