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Stuffed Olive Sandwiches

A sandwich made with olives, pecans, and Neufchatel cheese spread between bread slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 ↓

Stuffed Olive Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, mix chopped olives with cooked dressing.

  2. Add chopped pecans and Neufchatel cheese to the olive mixture and combine well.

  3. Spread the mixture between thin 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. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  2. Olive + breadtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Olive + pecanstop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together716 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Olive + cheesetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,802 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  5. Pecans + breadtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together67 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

Olives
Provide the main savory flavor and a briny, salty bite.
Cooked dressing
Binds the filling and adds moisture and tang to the mixture.
Pecans
Add crunch and a toasty, nutty texture against the soft filling.
Neufchatel cheese
Adds creaminess and richness, helping the filling spread and hold together.

The step that matters

Combining the filling well. Mixing the cheese into the olive mixture thoroughly spreads moisture and fat evenly, so the filling holds together and does not stay streaky or soggy in spots.

Swap the pecans

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

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Walnutfits better
  3. Peasfits better
  4. Pecansthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, 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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