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Monepelie Rs Sandwiches

A sandwich made with anchovies, hard‑boiled eggs, butter, salt, cayenne pepper, and white bread.

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

Monepelie Rs Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Pound the anchovies and hard-boiled eggs in a mortar until fine.

  2. Add butter, salt, and cayenne pepper to the mixture and mix well.

Assemble and cut

  1. Spread the mixture on thin slices of white bread.

  2. Press two slices together and cut into fancy shapes.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Pepper + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20,964 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Butter + peppertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85,593 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Anchovies
Provide a salty, savoury flavour that gives the filling its main character.
Hard-boiled eggs
Bind the pounded filling and give it a rich, smooth body.
Butter
Adds fat that makes the filling spreadable and mellows its texture.
White bread
Forms the thin structure that holds the filling and is pressed into shapes.

The step that matters

Pound the anchovies and eggs until fine. If the mixture stays coarse, the filling will not spread smoothly on the thin bread and may tear it. Grinding the solids fine also distributes the anchovy flavour evenly through the eggs and butter.

“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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