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Cheese Sandwiches

A simple sandwich made with buttered bread and a cheese and paprika spread.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cheese are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,962 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cheese Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Work the butter until creamy.

  2. If preferred, use mayonnaise or boiled dressing instead of butter.

  3. Add the cheese and paprika, and mix well.

Assemble

  1. Slice the bread thin and trim the edges.

  2. Spread the cheese mixture on the bread and assemble in pairs.

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. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  2. Butter + wheattop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,002 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Cheese + wheattop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together199 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

What each ingredient does

Butter
Adds fat and richness, and softens into a creamy base that binds the cheese into a spreadable filling.
Cheese
Provides the main flavour and body of the filling, and holds the sandwich together when spread.
Whole wheat or rye bread
Forms the structure of the sandwich and holds the filling between its slices.

The step that matters

Work the butter until creamy. Softened, creamy butter blends evenly with the cheese and paprika. Cold or lumpy butter leaves pockets of unmixed fat and uneven spreading.

“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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