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Swiss Cheese Sandwiches

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Mustard and olive match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,950 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Swiss Cheese Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the Swiss cheese into thin slices.

  2. Sprinkle the cheese with coarse sea salt, paprika, and prepared mustard.

  3. Place the seasoned cheese between slices of brown bread.

  4. Add chopped olives 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. Mustard + olivetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Bread + olivetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  3. Swiss cheese + mustardtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together175 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Swiss cheese + olivetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together196 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  5. Swiss cheese + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together35 recipes

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

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

Swap the mustard

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

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Potatofits about as well
  3. Capsicumfits about as well
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against swiss cheese, bread, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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