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Cottage Cheese Club Sandwich

A sandwich made with toasted bread, cottage cheese, lettuce or watercress, salad dressing, and optional fillings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Lettuce and tomato are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,655 recipes. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

Cottage Cheese Club Sandwich

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Toast the bread on one side only.

  2. Spread cottage cheese thickly on one or more slices of bread.

  3. Add lettuce or watercress and salad dressing.

  4. Layer any additional fillings as desired.

  5. Cut the sandwich diagonally and serve on an individual plate with the halves arranged in a diamond shape.

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 + tomatotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,655 recipes

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

  2. Bread + tomatotop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,013 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Cottage cheese + tomatotop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together177 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  4. Bread + cottage cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together72 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  5. Bread + lettucetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together602 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

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

What each ingredient does

Cottage cheese
Provides a moist, creamy filling that spreads thickly and keeps the sandwich from drying out.
Toasted bread
Gives a crisp, sturdy base that holds the fillings without going soggy quickly.

Swap the tomato

The recipe marks tomato as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, cottage cheese, lettuce):

  1. Spinachfits better
  2. Cucumberfits better
  3. Chivefits about as well
  4. Tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, cottage cheese, lettuce. 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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