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Prune Rolls

A pastry roll filled with stewed prunes and optionally topped with almonds.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and almond are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,245 recipes. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Prune Rolls

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Soak prunes overnight.

  2. Stew prunes until very tender, then run through a colander to remove stones and skins.

  3. If prunes are not sweet enough, add a little sugar.

Shape the rolls

  1. Roll out the dough thin and cut with a biscuit cutter.

  2. Dip each round in melted butter and place 1 large teaspoon of prunes on top.

  3. Let the rolls rise until very light before baking.

  4. Sprinkle chopped almonds over the top if desired.

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.

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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.

  1. Butter + almondtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Sugar + almondtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together15,679 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

What each ingredient does

Prunes
Provide the sweet, moist filling that flavours each roll.
Rolls dough
Forms the structure that rises and bakes around the prune filling.
Melted butter
Adds fat and richness, helping the dough brown and stay tender.

The step that matters

Let the rolls rise until very light before baking. Yeast dough that is under-proofed bakes dense and heavy, while a properly risen dough gives a light, airy crumb. Rising is driven by yeast gas trapped in the gluten network.

“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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