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Caviare Sandwiches

Caviar sandwiches are thin bread slices topped with caviar, lemon juice, cayenne pepper, and creamed butter, then pressed and cut.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and pepper match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,047 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Caviare Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare thin slices of bread.

Assemble the sandwiches

  1. Spread each slice lightly with caviar.

  2. Sprinkle with lemon juice and a little cayenne pepper.

  3. Take an equal number of slices of bread and spread with creamed butter.

  4. Press the caviar-covered slices and buttered slices together lightly.

  5. Trim the edges and cut into square, triangular, or finger-shaped pieces.

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. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Caviar + buttertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together107 recipes

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

  4. Caviar + breadtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together65 recipes

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

  5. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Astrakhan caviar
Provides the salty, briny flavour that is the main point of the sandwich.
Creamed butter
Adds fat and richness and helps the caviar stick to the bread.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the rich butter and salty caviar.

The step that matters

Spreading the caviar lightly. Caviar is expensive and its delicate eggs burst under pressure, so a light, even layer keeps the texture intact and prevents it from squeezing out when the slices are pressed together.

“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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