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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 21 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,962 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Trim all meat from skin, gristle, and sinews.

  2. Cut thin slices of bread.

  3. Spread butter and anchovy paste on one slice.

  4. Press another slice on top and cut into squares.

  5. Pound olives with olive oil or butter.

  6. Butter the bread and spread the olive mixture or fry slices in olive oil until light and crisp.

  7. Layer the olives on the fried bread.

  8. For meat sandwiches, layer ham, salt beef, or tongue between two slices of buttered bread.

  9. Add mustard and chopped green chilies if desired.

  10. For shrimp sandwiches, butter the bread, arrange potted shrimps, press together, and cut neatly.

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. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  2. Fish + anchovytop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together637 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Meat + shrimptop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together584 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  4. Shrimp + anchovytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together440 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanol (green, fruity).

  5. Shrimp + buttertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,931 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

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

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