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Dinner Rolls

Small loaf of French bread dough shaped into rolls, baked and brushed with butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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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 ↓

Dinner Rolls

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Shape

  1. Roll out the dough to a thickness of ½ inch.

  2. Cut out shapes using a cutter.

  3. Place the cut dough on a greased baking sheet.

Rise and bake

  1. Allow the rolls to rise until doubled in size.

  2. Bake in a preheated oven at 400°F (200°C) for 8 to 10 minutes.

Finish

  1. Brush the rolls with butter after baking.

  2. Alternatively, bake until hard and rasp the crust.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Dough
Forms the body of the rolls, giving structure and a bread-like crumb as it bakes.
Butter
Adds richness and a soft, tender finish to the crust after baking.

The step that matters

Allow the rolls to rise until doubled in size. Rising lets gas trapped in the dough expand the shapes. Under-rising leaves rolls dense and heavy, while over-rising can cause them to collapse or lose structure 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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