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Easy Roman Cheese Bread

"This is an Easter bread recipe that Italians eat with ham and salami. It's a very easy recipe."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Romano cheese and butter match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 130 recipes mention both. Both carry gamma-decalactone, which smells peach, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

2 - 9x5 inch loaves
Prep15 min
Cook45 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Brush two 9x5 inch loaf pans with a little of the melted butter. Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).

  2. Stir the active dry yeast into the lukewarm milk and let it stand 5 minutes until foamy.

  3. Beat the eggs into the yeast mixture, then stir in the remaining melted butter.

  4. Add the flour and grated Romano cheese and stir until a thick, sticky dough forms. Do not knead it.

  5. Spoon the dough evenly into the prepared pans, smooth the tops, and let rise in a warm place about 30 minutes until puffed.

  6. Bake 35 to 40 minutes until deep golden brown and the center of each loaf reaches 190°F (88°C), which fully cooks the eggs.

  7. Cool the loaves in their pans for 10 minutes, then turn them out onto a rack to cool further before slicing.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Romano cheese + buttertop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together130 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  2. Milk + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together81,222 recipes

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

  3. Flour + buttertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together122,858 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Milk + romano cheesetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together52 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  5. Milk + flourtop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together76,993 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and butter share little aroma chemistry, yet 122,858 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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