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Dbessikg for Sandwiches

A sandwich with a dressing of sweet oil, mustard, butter, red pepper, salt, and egg yolk, topped with chopped tongue, ham, and optional cold chicken.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 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 ↓

Dbessikg for Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mix the sweet oil, mixed mustard, butter, red pepper, salt, and egg yolk in a bowl until smooth, then keep the mixture cool.

  2. Finely chop the tongue, ham, and cold chicken (if using).

Assemble

  1. Spread the dressing on a slice of bread, then add the meat mixture.

  2. Top with another slice of bread, press together, and trim the edges.

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.

Explore the science

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. Bread + hamtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Mustard + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

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

  4. Mustard + chickentop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,192 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).

  5. Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Egg yolk
Emulsifies the oil and butter into a smooth, stable dressing that clings to the bread.
Butter
Adds richness and a creamy texture to the dressing.
Mixed mustard
Adds sharpness that cuts through the richness of the butter and meats.
Sweet oil
Gives the dressing a smooth, fluid body and moisture.

The step that matters

Keep the mixture cool. Butter softens and can separate from the egg yolk and oil when warm, so the dressing can turn greasy and loose. Keeping it cool helps it stay thick, smooth, and stable until assembly.

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, pepper, egg, bread, ham, chicken):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Potatofits about as well
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, pepper, egg, bread, ham, chicken. 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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