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Raised Rolls

A yeast-based roll made with light bread sponge, milk, lard, sugar, baking soda, flour, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 ↓

Raised Rolls

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. In a bowl, combine the light bread sponge, warm milk, melted lard, white sugar, and baking soda.

  2. Add enough flour to form a stiff dough.

  3. Let the dough rise until very light.

Shape and bake

  1. Handle the dough lightly, roll it thin, and cut out shapes.

  2. Place a little butter on each piece and fold the dough over.

  3. Let the rolls rise in a pan before baking.

  4. Bake until golden brown.

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Light bread sponge
Provides the yeast-leavened starter that makes the dough rise and gives it a light crumb.
Melted lard
Adds fat that tenderizes the crumb and keeps the rolls soft.
White sugar
Feeds the yeast and adds sweetness and browning in the oven.
Baking soda
Reacts with acidic components in the dough to add extra lift and help browning.
Flour
Forms the gluten network that gives the stiff dough its structure.

The step that matters

Handle the dough lightly, roll it thin, and cut out shapes.. Overworking or compressing the dough knocks out the gas bubbles built up during rising, leading to dense rolls. Gentle handling keeps the air cells intact.

“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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