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Nut Sandwiches

A mixture of cream cheese and nuts, seasoned with celery salt, moistened with cold cream or salad dressing.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Walnut and celery match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 852 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Nut Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, combine ground cream cheese and chopped nuts.

  2. Season with celery salt.

  3. Moisten the mixture with cold cream or salad dressing until desired consistency.

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. Walnut + celerytop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together852 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Cream cheese + walnuttop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together439 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  3. Cream cheese + creamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,087 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  4. Celery + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,863 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  5. Walnut + creamtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,982 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

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

What each ingredient does

Cream cheese
Provides the creamy base that binds the filling and gives it a soft, spreadable texture.
Walnuts or hickory nuts
Add crunch and a rich, nutty flavor that contrasts with the soft cheese.
Cold cream or salad dressing
Adds moisture so the mixture becomes spreadable and reaches the desired consistency.

Swap the celery

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

  1. Nutmegfits better
  2. Celerythe original
  3. Tarragonfits about as well
  4. Cinnamonfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, walnut, 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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