Name: Walnut Sandwich
Ingredients: 1 cup walnuts, finely chopped; ½ cup salad dressing; 4 slices of buttered bread

Why it works: Walnut and bread work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 714 recipes. Both carry 2-undecenal, which smells sweet. The science ↓

Walnut Sandwich

Ingredients

1 cup walnuts, finely chopped
½ cup salad dressing
4 slices of buttered bread

Directions

Prepare

Finely chop the walnuts or grind them using a meat grinder.
Mix the chopped walnuts with salad dressing to form a paste.

Assemble

Spread the walnut paste on the buttered bread.

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.

Walnut + breadtop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together714 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Walnuts: Provide the main filling texture and a nutty flavour once chopped.
Salad dressing: Binds the chopped walnuts into a spreadable paste and adds moisture and tang.

“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.