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Raised Rolls No. 2

A sweet roll made with sugar, butter, baking soda, egg, and light sponge, baked until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118,967 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Raised Rolls No. 2

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a hot oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Make the dough

  1. Combine sugar, butter, baking soda, and egg in a bowl.

  2. Beat until well mixed.

  3. Stir the mixture into the light sponge.

  4. Mould the dough well.

  5. Let the dough stand until the afternoon.

Shape and bake

  1. Cut the dough into small pieces.

  2. Butter your hands.

  3. Roll each piece into a ball.

  4. Place the balls in a pan to rise.

  5. Bake in a hot oven at 400°F (200°C) until golden.

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.

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Light sponge
Provides the leavened base that gives the rolls their light, airy structure.
Egg
Adds structure and richness, helping the dough hold its shape while baking.
Butter
Adds fat for tenderness and a softer crumb.
Sugar
Feeds the yeast and adds sweetness and gentle browning.
Baking soda
Reacts with acidity in the dough to produce gas, aiding rise.

The step that matters

Let the dough stand until the afternoon. Rising needs time for the leavening to build gas and structure. Cutting or shaping too early leaves the dough dense and flat.

“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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