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Wheat Rolls

A simple wheat roll made with flour, sugar, cream tartar, butter, and milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Hatfield (Mass.). Congregational Church · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Wheat Rolls

Ingredients

Directions

Mix the batter

  1. Combine 2 cups flour, 2 tablespoons sugar, butter the size of a teaspoon soda, and 1/2 teaspoon cream tartar, then mix the above together by hand.

  2. Add T and milk enough for a thick batter.

Bake

  1. Bake quickly in hot pans.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

555Calories
13 gProtein
7 gFat
108 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49

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

By Hatfield (Mass.). Congregational Church. 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.

Explore the science

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.

  1. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  3. Flour + creamtop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Flour
Provides the structure that sets as the batter bakes.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the crust brown.
Cream tartar
Adds acidity that reacts with the soda to help the rolls rise.

The step that matters

Bake quickly in hot pans. Chemical leavening starts as soon as the wet and dry ingredients meet, so the batter should go into hot pans without delay. Heat sets the structure while the gas bubbles are still trapped, which gives a better rise.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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