Name: French Rolls
Ingredients: one pint of milk; one-half cup of sugar; one-half cup of yeast; one tablespoon of 'butter; one-half yeast cake; salt

Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

French Rolls

Ingredients

Directions

One pint of milk, scalded; put into it while hot one-half cup of sugar and one tablespoon of 'butter; when the milk is cool add a little salt and one-half cup of yeast or one-half yeast cake. Make a sponge, and when light, mix as for bread. Let it rise until light, punch it down with the hand and let it rise again. Repeat two or three times. Turn the dough on the moulding board and pound with rolling pin until thin enough to cut; spread melted butter over top, cut and fold over. Let it rise on tins, bake and brush with melted butter. — Mrs. G. J. Shoff, Maine, Ariz.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

755Calories

21 gProtein

21 gFat

120 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Flour	1 cup (125g) all-purpose	455
Milk	1 cup (244ml) whole	149
Butter	1 tbsp (14g)	102
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Cake	not in our table	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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. See the original page.

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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.

Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together98,233 recipes

Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).
Milk + sugartop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together77,875 recipes

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