Name: Light Loaf Rolls
Ingredients: one quart of flour; a pinch of salt; one table-spoonful of lard; one half cake of twin brothers' french biscuit yeast; one good- sized irish potato; salt

Why it works: Flour and biscuit match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 889 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Light Loaf Rolls

Ingredients

Directions

One quart of flour, one table-spoonful of lard, one of sugar, one half cake of Twin Brothers' French biscuit yeast, made into a sponge. Two hours before making the dough, use one good- sized Irish potato, mashed fine in the sponge before making into dough. If the sponge is not suflicient to make up the flour, add a little cold water, a pinch of salt; work it well, and let it rise ; work over the second time, make into small thin rolls, and into a loaf. — Miss Kate Spears.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

897Calories

20 gProtein

22 gFat

154 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
Biscuit	1 medium (45g)	166
Potato	1 medium (173g) baked	161
Lard	1 tbsp (12.8g)	115
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.

By Vehling, Joseph Dommers, 1879-1950. fmo. 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.

Flour + biscuittop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together889 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Biscuit + potatotop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together137 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Flour + potatotop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together5,355 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).