Name: Strawberry Roll Pudding
Ingredients: 2 cups bread flour; 2 teaspoons sugar; 2 tablespoons butter; 3 teaspoons baking powder; ½ teaspoon salt; ¾ cup milk; 1 box strawberries; sugar for sprinkling

Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Strawberry Roll Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the dough

Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).
In a bowl, mix the flour, salt, sugar, baking powder, butter, and milk to form a dough.
Roll the dough into an oblong shape, about ½ inch thick.

Fill and bake

Sprinkle the dough with ½ box of quartered strawberries and dredge with sugar.
Roll the dough like a jelly roll and cut into 1‑inch thick slices.
Place the slices in a baking pan and bake for about 20 minutes.

Serve

Serve with strawberry sauce made from the remaining berries.

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.

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.

Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together27,232 recipes

Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).
Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,466 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together124,287 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).
Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together78,219 recipes

Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Bread flour: Forms the dough's structure once mixed with liquid and fat.
Baking powder: Releases gas during baking so the dough rises and becomes light.
Butter: Adds fat that tenderises the dough and adds richness.
Milk: Hydrates the flour and helps bind the dough together.
Strawberries: Add fruity sweetness and moisture that bakes into the rolls.

“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.