Name: Habitant Sandwiches
Ingredients: roll loaf; butter; large apples; cheese; mayonnaise

Why it works: Butter and cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,962 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Habitant Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Slice the roll loaf and butter each slice.
Peel the apples and slice them thinly to fit on the bread.
Remove the seeds and core from the apple slices.
Place the apple slices on the lower slice of bread.
Sprinkle a little cheese over the apple or spread with mayonnaise.

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.

Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,962 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).
Apple + cheesetop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together294 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Butter + appletop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,706 recipes

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