Name: Peanut Sandwiches
Ingredients: 1 cup fresh roasted peanuts; ⅓ cup mayonnaise; Salt to taste; Bread

Why it works: Peanut and bread work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 97 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Peanut Sandwiches

Ingredients

1 cup fresh roasted peanuts
⅓ cup mayonnaise
Salt to taste
Bread

Directions

Make the filling

Grind or chop the roasted peanuts finely.
Mix the ground peanuts with mayonnaise.

Assemble

Spread the mixture between slices of bread like butter.

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.

Peanut + breadtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together97 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Roasted peanuts: Provide the main body and nutty flavor of the filling.
Mayonnaise: Binds the ground peanuts into a spreadable paste and adds moisture and richness.

“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.