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Cheese Paste Sandwich

A sandwich made with a mixture of hard‑boiled eggs, cheese, butter, and spices spread on bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and capsicum match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,571 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Cheese Paste Sandwich

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Hard boil the eggs for 10 minutes, then place them in cold water to prevent discoloration.

  2. Shell the eggs and mash the yolks finely.

  3. Chop the egg whites and add them to the yolks.

  4. Mix in salt, pepper, capsicum or chili, butter, and grated cheese. Beat the mixture well until combined.

Assemble

  1. Spread the mixture on thin slices of 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.

  1. Pepper + capsicumtop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,571 recipes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  5. Capsicum + breadtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,286 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Provide the bulk and rich, creamy body of the filling.
Butter
Adds fat and smooth richness, helping the filling spread.
Grated cheese
Adds savoury flavour and binds the mashed egg into a paste.

The step that matters

Cool the eggs in cold water right after boiling. Plunging boiled eggs into cold water stops the cooking quickly, which helps prevent the grey-green ring that forms around the yolk when overcooked eggs sit in residual heat.

Swap the capsicum

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, pepper, butter, cheese, bread):

  1. Capsicumthe original
  2. Asparagusfits about as well
  3. Potatofits less well
  4. Tomatofits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, pepper, butter, cheese, bread. 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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