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Cheese and Egg Sandwiches

A sandwich made with a spread of grated cheese and boiled egg yolks seasoned with cayenne pepper and sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,130 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cheese and Egg Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. In a bowl, combine the grated cheese and egg yolks.

  2. Rub the mixture to a powder.

  3. Season with cayenne and salt, then mix in enough cream or melted butter to form a spreadable paste.

Assemble

  1. Cut thin slices of bread and spread the cheese and egg mixture on them to make sandwiches.

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. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 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. Cheese + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,655 recipes

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

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

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

  5. Cheese + peppertop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,861 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

Grated soft cheese
Provides richness and flavor, and melts into the paste to bind the filling.
Hard-boiled egg yolks
Add a rich, creamy texture and body to the spreadable filling.
Cream or melted butter
Adds moisture and fat so the mixture becomes smooth and spreadable.

The step that matters

Adding the cream or melted butter. Add it gradually, only until the paste is spreadable. Too much liquid makes the filling runny and soggy the bread, while too little leaves it crumbly and hard to spread.

“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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