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Cottage-cheese Club Sandwich

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

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and cottage cheese work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 72 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

Cottage-cheese Club Sandwich

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Toast one side of the bread slices.

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

  3. Add lettuce or watercress and salad dressing.

  4. Cut the sandwich diagonally and arrange the halves in a diamond shape on a plate.

  5. Cut immediately after toasting to prevent crushing the cheese.

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Cottage cheese + lettucetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together85 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

Toasted bread
Provides a crisp, sturdy base that holds the layered filling together.
Cottage cheese
Forms the thick, creamy, mildly tangy filling that gives the sandwich its body.
Salad dressing
Adds moisture, tang and flavour to the cheese and greens.

The step that matters

Cut immediately after toasting. Toast is at its crispest and firmest while warm and dry. Waiting lets the bread soften and sweat, and cutting after the filling is in place can press the soft cheese out or crush the layers.

Swap the lettuce

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

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Cucumberfits about as well
  4. Lettucethe original

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