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Peanut Sandwiches

A sandwich spread made from finely ground roasted peanuts mixed with mayonnaise, served on bread or crackers.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Peanut and bread work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 97 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Peanut Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Roll or grind the freshly roasted peanuts until very fine.

  2. Mix the ground peanuts with mayonnaise until smooth.

Assemble

  1. Spread the mixture over thin slices of bread or crackers.

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. Peanut + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together97 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Freshly roasted peanuts
Provide the main flavour and body of the filling once finely ground.
Mayonnaise
Adds fat and moisture so the ground peanuts blend into a smooth, spreadable paste.
Bread or crackers
Serve as the base that holds the spread.

The step that matters

Grinding the peanuts until very fine. Fine grinding releases the peanut oils and breaks up solids so the filling turns smooth and spreads evenly instead of gritty or crumbly.

“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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