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Curry Sandwich

A sandwich with a creamy curry butter spread between two slices of bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Lime and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,491 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Curry Sandwich

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine the butter, curry powder, lime juice, pepper, salt, and beaten chili in a bowl.

  2. Beat the mixture until it is creamy.

  3. Spread the creamy mixture between the slices of 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. Lime + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,491 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

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

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

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

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

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

  5. Lime + breadtop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together102 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Adds fat and richness, and carries the spices so they spread evenly through the filling.
Curry powder
Provides the main aroma and warm spiced flavor of the filling.
Lime juice
Adds acidity that brightens the spices and balances the fat.
Beaten chili
Adds heat and a pungent, fresh chili flavor to the filling.
Bread
Holds the filling in place and gives the sandwich its structure.

The step that matters

Beat the mixture until creamy. Beating softened butter with the spices distributes them evenly. If the mixture is left lumpy, pockets of raw curry powder can taste harsh and the filling will spread unevenly on the bread.

Swap the lime

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

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Plumfits better
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, pepper, 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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