Name: Egg and Chutney Sandwiches
Ingredients: hard-boiled eggs; chutney; white or brown bread; butter

Why it works: Bread and butter 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 ↓

Egg and Chutney Sandwiches

Ingredients

hard-boiled eggs
chutney
white or brown bread
butter

Directions

Boil the eggs for 15 minutes, then let them cool in the water.
Remove the shells, shred the egg whites or chop them coarsely.
Crush the yolks with a wooden spoon and gradually mix in the chutney until a moist paste forms.
Prepare thin slices of bread and butter them.
Spread half of the slices with the egg and chutney mixture, add a thin layer of egg whites, and cover with more buttered bread.
Press well, trim the edges, and cut into desired shapes.

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.

Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,232 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together118,967 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).