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Olive and Cheese Sandwiches

A rye bread sandwich filled with mashed Neufchatel cheese, chopped olives, salt, and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Olive and Cheese Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Stone the olives and chop them finely.

  2. Mash the Neufchatel cheese.

  3. Stir together the olives, cheese, salt, and pepper.

Assemble

  1. Spread the filling between buttered slices of rye bread.

  2. Garnish the top of each sandwich with half of a stoned olive.

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 + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  3. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  4. Olive + ryetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together98 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  5. Olive + breadtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,091 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Olives
Provide the salty, briny flavour that stands out against the mild cheese.
Neufchatel cheese
Forms the creamy, spreadable base that binds the filling together.
Rye bread
Gives a sturdy, slightly tangy structure to hold the filling.
Butter
Adds richness and a little fat to the bread, softening the sandwich.

“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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