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Nut Sandwich with Cheese

A sandwich made with walnut paste and cream cheese spread on thin bread slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Walnut and cream cheese work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 439 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Nut Sandwich with Cheese

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, combine the chopped walnuts and cream cheese to form a smooth paste.

  2. Add cream gradually until the mixture is spreadable.

  3. Spread the nut and cheese mixture on 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.

Explore the science

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. Walnut + cream cheesetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together439 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Cream cheese + creamtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,087 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  3. Cream cheese + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together166 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  4. Walnut + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together714 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Walnut + creamtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,982 recipes

    Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).

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

What each ingredient does

Walnuts
Provide the crunchy, nutty body that gives the filling its texture.
Cream cheese
Binds the chopped walnuts into a smooth, spreadable paste.
Cream
Loosens the paste so it spreads easily without tearing the bread.

The step that matters

Adding the cream gradually. Cream added all at once can make the paste too loose and runny. Adding it slowly lets you stop once the mixture is spreadable but still holds its shape on the bread.

Swap the walnut

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

  1. Pecansfits better
  2. Walnutthe original
  3. Peanutfits about as well
  4. Almondfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, cream, 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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