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Elsa’s Roll of Trumese

A roll made with cracker dust, eggs, milk, salt, and minced trumese, baked and served with sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Milk and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and 88,785 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Elsa’s Roll of Trumese

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mince trumese (3 parts).

  2. Add 2 eggs, 1 cup cracker dust or granella, ½ cup milk, and salt.

  3. Shape into a large roll.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake for ½ hour, basting occasionally with oil or butter, and water.

  2. Serve with any desired sauce or accompaniment.

By Evora Bucknum Perkins. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together88,785 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the mixture and help it set as it bakes.
Cracker dust
Provides bulk and helps the mixture hold its shape.
Milk
Adds moisture to the mixture.

“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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