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Angel Sandwiches

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Strawberry jam and pineapple work together. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9 recipes. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

Angel Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut thin slices of angel-food cake.

  2. Spread thick whipped cream on one half of the sandwich.

  3. Spread strawberry jam on the other half.

  4. Serve with pineapple sherbet.

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. Strawberry jam + pineappletop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  2. Cream + pineappletop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,574 recipes

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

  3. Cream + strawberry jamtop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together143 recipes

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

Swap the strawberry jam

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

  1. Strawberryfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Strawberry jamthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, pineapple. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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