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Peanut Sandwiches

A sandwich made with roasted peanuts mixed with mayonnaise or cream, spread between bread slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Peanut Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Grind or chop fresh roasted peanuts finely.

  2. Mix the ground peanuts with oil mayonnaise.

Assemble

  1. Spread the mixture between slices of bread.

Alternative filling

  1. For an alternative, crush shelled peanuts and season with salt, then mix with cream or creamed butter.

  2. Spread this mixture between 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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  3. Peanut + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together97 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  4. Peanut + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,754 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  5. Peanut + creamtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together490 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Fresh roasted peanuts
Provide the main nutty flavor and the body of the filling once ground.
Oil mayonnaise
Adds fat and moisture so the ground peanuts form a spreadable paste.
Cream
Adds moisture and fat, making the alternative filling softer and smoother.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, helping the alternative filling spread and hold together.

The step that matters

Grind or chop fresh roasted peanuts finely.. Fine grinding releases the peanuts' oils and breaks them into small particles, creating a smooth paste that spreads easily and holds together. Coarse pieces tend to tear the bread and fall out of the sandwich.

Swap the peanut

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

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Pecansfits better
  3. Lima beansfits better
  4. Peanutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, cream, butter. 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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