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Cheese and Nut Sandwich

A sandwich made with cream cheese, chopped nuts, and cream spread between thin bread slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream cheese and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,087 recipes. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. The science ↓

Cheese and Nut Sandwich

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, combine chopped nuts and cream cheese.

  2. Add enough cream to achieve a smooth, spreadable consistency.

  3. Spread the mixture between 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.

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

  3. Nuts + breadtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together174 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Nuts + cream cheesetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together56 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  5. Nuts + creamtop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together886 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

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

What each ingredient does

Cream cheese
Provides creamy fat and moisture that binds the filling and makes it spreadable.
Chopped nuts
Adds body, crunch and a rich, toasty flavour to the filling.
Cream
Thins the cream cheese mixture, adjusting it to a smooth, spreadable texture.

The step that matters

Add the cream gradually. Too much cream makes the filling loose and soggy, so it can seep into the bread. Adding it a little at a time lets you stop once the texture is smooth and spreadable.

Swap the nuts

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

  1. Pecansfits better
  2. Walnutfits better
  3. Peanutfits about as well
  4. Nutsthe original

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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