Name: Roly-poly
Ingredients: Pastry dough; Dried currants or fresh blackberries, raspberries, or blueberries; Flour; Liquid sauce

Why it works: Flour and sauce are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,078 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Roly-poly

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderately hot oven

Ingredients

Pastry dough
Dried currants or fresh blackberries, raspberries, or blueberries
Flour
Liquid sauce

Directions

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

Roll the pastry dough to about ½ inch thick.
Cover the dough with dried currants or well-sweetened fresh berries.
Sprinkle flour over the filling.
Roll the pastry like a jelly roll.
Bake in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C) until well done.
Serve with liquid sauce.

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.

Flour + saucetop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,078 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Currant + flourtop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together8,077 recipes
Currant + saucetop 35% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together628 recipes