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Cheese Sandwich

A sandwich made with a yolk and cream cheese spread, seasoned with salt, and topped with lettuce or herbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Coconut and lettuce share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 54 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Cheese Sandwich

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Blend the yolks of the hard-boiled eggs with coconut butter, olive oil, or peanut butter.

  2. Add the grated cream cheese and a pinch of salt, mixing well.

Assemble and serve

  1. Spread the mixture between slices of bread.

  2. Place lettuce, parsley, or watercress leaves between the slices before serving.

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. Coconut + lettucetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together54 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Coconut + cream cheesetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together200 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

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

  4. Bread + lettucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together602 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Cream cheese + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together166 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

What each ingredient does

Hard-boiled egg yolks
Provide the creamy, rich body that forms the base of the spread.
Cream cheese
Adds tang and a smooth, spreadable creaminess to the filling.
Coconut butter, olive oil, or peanut butter
Adds fat that makes the yolk filling smooth and spreadable.

Swap the lettuce

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Chivefits better
  3. Sweet potatofits better
  4. Lettucethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, coconut, cream cheese, 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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