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Cinnamon Bread Sandwiches

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Bread and cinnamon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,705 recipes. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

Cinnamon Bread Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Sift the bread through a fine sieve.

  2. Mix the sifted bread with cinnamon.

  3. Spread the mixture on a slice of bread.

  4. Place another slice on top to form a sandwich.

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 + cinnamontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,705 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

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

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