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Vienna Rolls

Vienna rolls are small, lightly leavened bread rolls made from crescent dough, baked until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Vienna Rolls

Why it works: Butter and poppy seed work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 258 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Vienna Rolls

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Prepare the dough as for Crescents.

  2. Shape the dough into small Vienna loaves about six inches long.

  3. Place the loaves in a buttered pan, leaving space between each.

  4. Let the loaves rise until light.

Finish and bake

  1. Gash the tops diagonally three times if not brushing with eggs.

  2. If desired, brush the rolls with beaten eggs and sprinkle with poppy seeds instead of gashing.

  3. Bake in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C) for about 25 minutes.

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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Explore the science

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 + poppy seedtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together258 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Egg + poppy seedtop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together309 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Dough
Provides the structure and crumb that the loaves hold as they rise and bake.
Beaten eggs
Brushed on the tops to add a glossy, golden browned finish.

Swap the poppy seed

The recipe marks poppy seed as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, egg):

  1. Poppy seedthe original
  2. Nutmegfits about as well
  3. Parsleyfits less well
  4. Capersfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, egg. 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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