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Club House Sandwich

A sandwich made with toasted bread, lettuce, cold chicken or turkey, bacon, mayonnaise, dill pickle, and optional onion.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and dill match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 159 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Club House Sandwich

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Toast the bread slices and remove the crusts.

  2. On one slice of toast, place a lettuce leaf.

  3. Add a slice of cold chicken or turkey in the center.

  4. Place a slice of broiled bacon on each side of the meat.

  5. Spread 2 teaspoons of mayonnaise dressing over the bacon.

  6. Add another lettuce leaf on top and cover with the second slice of toast.

  7. Serve with sliced dill pickle and chopped onion if desired.

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. Lettuce + dilltop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together159 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  2. Lettuce + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,562 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  3. Chicken + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  4. Dill + oniontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,639 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  5. Bread + chickentop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,258 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Mayonnaise dressing
Adds moisture and richness that keeps the sandwich from drying out.
Bacon
Adds salty, savory fat and crisp texture against the soft bread.
Chicken or turkey
Provides the main protein and substantial, meaty bulk of the sandwich.
Bread
Gives structure that holds the layers together, with toasting adding firmness.

Swap the onion

The recipe marks onion as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, lettuce, chicken, dill):

  1. Mustardfits better
  2. Beetrootfits better
  3. Cucumberfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, lettuce, chicken, dill. 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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