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Lemon Cheese Sandwich

A baked sandwich made with eggs, butter, sugar, lemon rind, baking powder, and a lemon cheese mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cheese 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 ↓

Lemon Cheese Sandwich

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point. The book gives no cooking times either; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. In a bowl, beat the eggs until frothy.

  3. Melt the butter and mix it with the castor sugar until creamy.

Make the batter

  1. Add the lemon cheese mixture, grated lemon rind, and baking powder to the egg mixture. Combine all ingredients thoroughly.

Bake

  1. Pour the mixture into a greased baking dish and bake for 20-25 minutes or until set.

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 + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  2. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  4. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Provide structure and lift when beaten, and help the mixture set as it bakes.
Butter
Adds richness and a tender texture to the finished cake.
Castor sugar
Sweetens the mixture and helps create a creamy, smooth base when blended with butter.
Lemon cheese mixture
Supplies the main lemon flavour and moisture, and adds body to the batter.
Baking powder
Releases gas during baking so the mixture rises and becomes light.

The step that matters

Pour the mixture into a greased baking dish and bake for 20-25 minutes or until set.. Baking powder starts lifting the batter as soon as it is wet, so the batter should go into the oven promptly. Bake until the centre is set, since underbaking leaves the middle wet and sunken.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, butter, sugar, cheese):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Applefits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, butter, sugar, cheese. 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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