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Cheesh Sandwiches

A sandwich made with a mixture of hard‑boiled egg yolk, cheese, mustard, and seasonings spread between biscuits or oat cake.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and biscuit match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 121 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Cheesh Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Make the filling

  1. Remove the yolk from the hard-boiled egg and place it in a small bowl.

  2. Crumble the yolk and mix in the melted butter until smooth.

  3. Add the salt, pepper, mustard, and grated cheese, mixing well after each addition.

  4. Stir in the vinegar or cold water to achieve the desired thickness.

Assemble

  1. Spread the mixture between two biscuits or pieces of oat cake.

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. Mustard + biscuittop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together121 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Mustard + vinegartop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  4. Pepper + mustardtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,430 recipes

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

  5. Cheese + mustardtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,805 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Hard-boiled egg yolk
Its yolk, crumbled and blended with butter, gives the filling a rich, creamy body.
Common cheese
Provides the main savoury flavour and bulk, and binds the filling as it is mixed.
Melted butter
Adds fat that makes the filling smooth and spreadable.
Mustard
Adds sharpness that cuts through the richness of the cheese and butter.

The step that matters

Stir in the vinegar or cold water. Liquid must be added gradually; too much thins the spread and too little leaves it stiff. Adding it in small amounts lets you judge the desired thickness.

“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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