Name: Blackberry Roly-poly
Ingredients: Short paste or biscuit dough; Blackberries or blackberry jam; Butter; Sugar

Why it works: Blackberry and butter work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 522 recipes. Both carry gamma-undecalactone, which smells peach, sweet. The science ↓

Blackberry Roly-poly

Ingredients

Short paste or biscuit dough
Blackberries or blackberry jam
Butter
Sugar

Directions

Roll out the dough thinly.
Spread blackberries or blackberry jam over the dough.
Roll the dough up tightly like a large sausage.
Wrap the rolled dough in a cloth, securing the ends and middle.
Boil for an hour or more, or bake if preferred.
Serve with butter and sugar.

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.

Blackberry + buttertop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together522 recipes

Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).
Biscuit + blackberrytop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Biscuit + buttertop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,009 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Biscuit + sugartop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,874 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).
Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together98,233 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).