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Waldorf Sandwiches

A sandwich made with white and brown bread, butter, onion, cheese, wiener, pickle, served with coffee and sugared fried cakes.

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

Waldorf Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the bread

  1. Slice white and brown bread into thin slices. Spread creamed butter on each slice.

  2. Layer five slices together with white bread on the outside. Press firmly and cut into strips crosswise.

Make the rye sandwich

  1. For the rye sandwich, cut the bottom crust off the rye bread. Layer a thin slice of Spanish onion, a thin slice of brick cheese, a split hot wiener, and a slice of dill pickle between the rye slices.

Serve

  1. Serve with hot coffee and sugared fried cakes.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Bread + cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Rye + dilltop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  5. Onion + dilltop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,639 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Creamed butter
Adds fat and richness, and helps the bread slices hold together when pressed.
Brick cheese
Adds a soft, melting layer of savory richness to the rye sandwich.
Dill pickle
Adds acidity and a sharp contrast to the rich cheese and wiener.
Spanish onion
Adds sharp, aromatic flavor in a thin layer.

Swap the dill

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, butter, rye, onion, cheese, coffee):

  1. Garlicfits better
  2. Thymefits better
  3. Cinnamonfits better
  4. Dillthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, butter, rye, onion, cheese, coffee. 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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