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Baked Jam Roll

A pastry roll made with flour, butter or dripping, baking powder, sugar, salt, water, and filled with jam or fruit.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By T. J. Edmonds Ltd. · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 92,116 recipes. Both carry phenylacetaldehyde, which smells hawthorne, honey. The science ↓

Baked Jam Roll

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. Combine ½ lb. flour, 4 oz. dripping (or lard or butter), a little salt, ½ teaspoon Edmonds' baking powder, and ½ teaspoon sugar; add water to mix.

  2. Beat butter (or dripping) to a cream, add all other ingredients, and sufficient water to make a dough.

  3. Roll out the dough into shape.

Fill and bake

  1. Spread with apricot or raspberry jam, sliced apples, plums, or any fruit desired; could be substituted for jam.

  2. Put in a baking dish and bake in a moderate oven.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

504Calories
13 gProtein
1 gFat
108 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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

By T. J. Edmonds Ltd.. 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 their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

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

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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

What each ingredient does

Flour (in the method)
Forms the main structure of the dough once mixed with water.
Dripping (in the method)
Adds fat that makes the dough tender and rich.
Edmonds' baking powder
Releases gas that helps the roll rise and become light.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the crust brown in the oven.

“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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