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Deyonshire Cream Sandwiches

A sandwich made with Devonshire cream and jam on buttered bread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 24% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,789 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Deyonshire Cream Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Spread Devonshire cream on thin slices of buttered bread.

  2. Add a layer of strawberry jam or your choice of jam.

  3. Press the slices of bread together.

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 + breadtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together5,789 recipes

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

  2. Bread + strawberry jamtop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together17 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  3. Cream + strawberry jamtop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together143 recipes

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

What each ingredient does

Devonshire cream
Adds rich fat and a soft, creamy texture that fills the sandwich.
Buttered bread
Provides the structure that holds the filling and a light savoury fat.
Strawberry jam
Adds sweetness and fruity acidity that balances the rich cream.

Swap the strawberry jam

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

  1. Raspberryfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Strawberry jamthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against 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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